| MV I.i.84 | [Gratiano to Antonio] Why should a man whose blood is warm within / Sit, like his grandsire cut in alabaster |
| MW I.i.48 | [Evans to Slender, of Anne] is her grandsire upon his death's-bed |
| RJ II.iv.31 | [Mercutio to Benvolio] is not this a lamentable thing, grandsire [ironic use] |
| TC I.iii.292 | [Nestor to Aeneas, of himself] one that was a man / When Hector's grandsire sucked |
| TC IV.v.196 | [Nestor to Hector] I knew thy grandsire, / And once fought with him |
| Tit III.ii.49 | [Marcus to Titus, of Young Lucius] the tender boy in passion moved / Doth weep to see his grandsire's heaviness |
| Tit IV.i.1 | [Young Lucius to Titus] Help, grandsire, help! |
| Tit V.iii.160 | [Lucius to Young Lucius] Thy grandsire loved thee well |