| 1H4 I.i.3 | [King Henry to all] we ... breathe short-winded accents of new broils |
| Ham I.iii.130 | [Polonius to Ophelia, of Hamlet's vows] Breathing like sanctified and pious bawds |
| Ham II.i.31 | [Polonius to Reynaldo, of Laertes] But breathe his faults so quaintly / That they may seem the taints of liberty |
| Ham II.i.44 | [Polonius to Reynaldo] The youth you breathe of |
| KJ IV.ii.36 | [Salisbury to King John, of himself and Pembroke] before you were new crowned, / We breathed our counsel |
| MW IV.v.2 | [Host to Simple] Speak, breathe, discuss |
| Oth IV.i.272 | [Iago to Lodovico, of Othello] I may not breathe my censure / What he might be |
| R2 I.i.173.1 | [Mowbray to King Richard, of Bolingbroke] no balm can cure but his heart-blood / Which breathed this poison |
| R2 III.iv.82 | [Gardener to Queen Isabel] Little joy have I / To breathe this news |
| RJ I.i.110 | [Benvolio to Montague, of Tybalt] he breathed defiance to my ears |
| RJ II.chorus.10 | [Chorus, of Romeo] he may not have access / To breathe such vows as lovers use to swear |
| Tim III.v.32 | [First Senator to Alcibiades] He's truly valiant that can wisely suffer / The worst that man can breathe |
| Tim III.v.60.1 | [Second Senator to Alcibiades] You breathe in vain |
| Tim V.iv.7 | [Alcibiades to Senators, of himself and others] [we have] breathed / Our sufferance vainly |