| Cym I.i.13 | [First Gentleman to Second Gentleman, of the courtiers] they wear their faces to the bent / Of the king's looks |
| H5 V.ii.16 | [Queen Isabel to King Henry] Your eyes which hitherto have borne in them, / Against the French that met them in their bent, / The fatal balls of murdering basilisks [i.e. in their gaze; or, line of fire] |
| JC II.i.210 | [Decius to all, of Caesar] I can give his humour the true bent |
| RJ II.ii.143 | [Juliet to Romeo] If that thy bent of love be honourable, / Thy purpose marriage |
| TC I.iii.252 | [Aeneas to and of Agamemnon] I bring a trumpet ... / To set his sense on the attentive bent |
| TC IV.v.282 | [Ulysses to Troilus, of Diomedes] Who ... gives all gaze and bent of amorous view / On the fair Cressid |
| TNK IV.ii.33 | [Emilia alone] who can find the bent of woman's fancy? [i.e. the way her infatuation will go] |
| WT I.ii.179 | [Leontes to Hermione, of her and Polixenes] To your own bents dispose you |