| KJ IV.i.3 | [Hubert to Executioner] When I strike my foot / Upon the bosom of the ground, rush forth |
| RJ II.ii.32 | [Romeo to Juliet, of a heavenly messenger] he ... sails upon the bosom of the air |
| TC I.iii.112 | [Ulysses to all] the bounded waters / Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores |
| Tim I.i.69 | [Poet to Painter, of people at the foot of Fortune's hill] all kind of natures, / That labour on the bosom of this sphere |