| AC I.i.3 | [Philo to Demetrius, of Antony] Those his goodly eyes, / That o'er the files and musters of the war / Have glowed like plated Mars |
| AC IV.i.12 | [Caesar to Maecenas, of Antony] Within our files there are ... / Enough to fetch him in |
| AW III.iii.9 | [Bertram as if to Mars] I put myself into thy file |
| AW IV.iii.263 | [Parolles to First Soldier, of Dumaine being at Mile-end] to instruct for the doubling of files [i.e. doubling up in drill exercises] |
| Cor I.vi.43 | [Martius to Cominius] The common file |
| Cor II.i.22 | [Menenius to Brutus and Sicinius] Do you two know how you are censured here in the city ... of us o'th' right-hand file? [i.e. by those in honourable position] |
| Cor V.vi.34 | [Aufidius to Conspirators, of Coriolanus] I ... let him choose / Out of my files |
| Cym V.iii.30 | [Posthumus to Lord] three performers are the file when all / The rest do nothing [i.e. they are like a whole army] |
| H8 I.ii.42 | [Wolsey to King Henry] I ... front but in that file / Where others tell steps with me |
| Mac III.i.101 | [Macbeth to Murderers] if you have a station in the file |
| Tim V.ii.1 | [Third Senator to Messenger, of Alcibiades] Are his files / As full as thy report? |