| AC V.ii.54 | [Cleopatra to Proculeius] I / Will not ... be chastised with the sober eye / Of dull Octavia |
| JC IV.ii.40 | [Cassius to Brutus] this sober form of yours hides wrongs |
| Luc.1403 | [of Nestor in a painting of Troy] Making such sober action with his hand / That it beguiled attention |
| Luc.1542 | [Lucrece to herself, of a painting of Sinon] So sober sad, so weary, and so mild [or: sober-sad] |
| MV II.v.35 | [Shylock to Jessica] Let not the sound of shallow foppery enter / My sober house |
| MV III.ii.78 | [Bassanio to himself] In religion, / What damned error but some sober brow / Will bless it |
| Tim III.v.21 | [Alcibiades to Senators, of his friend] with such sober and unnoted passion / He did behove his anger |
| Tim iv.iii.499 | [Timon to Flavius] Forgive my general and exceptless rashness, / You perpetual-sober gods |