| JC III.i.107 | [Brutus to all] let us ... besmear our swords |
| KJ III.i.236 | [King Philip to Cardinal Pandulph, of French and English hands] they were besmeared and overstained / With slaughter's pencil |
| TN V.i.49 | [Orsino to Viola, of Antonio's face] it was besmeared / As black as Vulcan in the smoke of war |