| AC III.iii.21.1 | [Messenger to Cleopatra] She shows a body rather than a life, / A statue than a breather. |
| AYL III.ii.272 | [Orlando to Jaques] I will chide no breather in the world but myself |
| Sonn.81.12 | [] And tongues to be, your being shall rehearse, / When all the breathers of this world are dead |