| 2H4 I.i.62 | [Northumberland to Lord Bardolph] So looks the strand whereon the imperious flood / Hath left a witnessed usurpation |
| 2H4 V.ii.132 | [King Henry V to his brothers, of his temperament] it shall mingle with the state of floods, / And flow henceforth in formal majesty |
| 3H6 II.v.9 | [King alone] Sometime the flood prevails, and then the wind |
| E3 III.i.170 | [Mariner to King John] the reeling vessels split, / And tottering sink into the ruthless flood |
| Ham I.iv.69 | [Horatio to Hamlet, of the Ghost] What if it tempt you toward the flood |
| KJ III.iv.1 | [King Philip to Lewis the Dauphin and Cardinal Pandulph] by a roaring tempest on the flood, / A whole armado of convicted sail / Is scattered |
| KJ IV.ii.139 | [King John to Bastard, of the bad news] now I breathe again / Aloft the flood |
| KJ V.vii.64 | [Bastard to King John, of his army] Were in the Washes all unwarily / Devoured by the unexpected flood |
| MND II.i.127 | [Titania to Oberon, of the mother of her attendant] Full often hath she ... sat with me on Neptune's yellow sands / Marking th'embarked traders on the flood |
| MV I.i.10 | [Salerio to Antonio] your argosies with portly sail, / Like signors and rich burghers on the flood |
| MV IV.i.72 | [Antonio to Bassanio, of arguing with Shylock] You may as well ... bid the main flood bate his usual height [i.e. the high tide] |
| Oth I.iii.134 | [Othelloto all] I spake of most disastrous chances, / Of moving accidents by flood and field |
| Oth II.i.2 | [First Gentleman to Montano, of the sea] it is a high-wrought flood |
| R3 I.iv.37 | [Clarence to Keeper] the envious flood / Stopped in my soul |
| TC I.i.104 | [Troilus alone, of Cressida] Between our Ilium and where she resides, / Let it be called the wild and wandering flood |