| Ham IV.i.42 | [Claudius to Gertrude] As level as the cannon to his blank |
| KL I.i.159 | [Kent to Lear] let me still remain / The true blank of thine eye |
| Oth III.iv.124 | [Desdemona to Cassio, of Othello] I have ... stood within the blank of his displeasure / For my free speech! |
| WT II.iii.5 | [Leontes alone, of Polixenes] the harlot-king / Is quite beyond mine arm, out of the blank / And level of my brain |