| Ham IV.iv.26 | [Hamlet to Captain] twenty thousand ducats / Will not debate the question of this straw |
| Ham IV.v.6 | [Gentleman to Gertrude, of Ophelia] she ... / Spurns enviously at straws |
| KJ III.iv.128 | [Cardinal Pandulph to Lewis the Dauphin, of the way to the English throne] the breath of what I mean to speak / Shall blow each dust, each straw ... / Out of the path |
| WT III.ii.109 | [Hermione to Leontes, of life] I prize it not a straw |