| 3H6 II.v.132 | [Queen to King, of Edward and Richard] bloody steel grasped in their ireful hands |
| H8 II.i.76 | [Buckingham to all] as the long divorce of steel falls on me / Make of your prayers one sweet sacrifice |
| JC III.ii.178 | [Antony to all, of Brutus] as he plucked his cursed steel away, / Mark how the blood of Caesar followed it |
| R2 III.ii.59 | [King Richard to Aumerle] For every man that Bolingbroke hath pressed / To lift shrewd steel against our golden crown |