| 1H6 I.i.109 | [Third Messenger to nobles] The circumstance I'll tell you more at large |
| 1H6 III.i.155 | [Gloucester to King] if your grace mark every circumstance |
| 2H6 I.i.103 | [Cardinal to Gloucester] what means ... / This peroration with such circumstance? |
| 2H6 V.ii.39 | [Young Clifford to himself] he that loves himself / Hath not essentially, but by circumstance, / The name of valour [i.e. by external signs] |
| Cym II.iv.61.2 | [Iachimo to Posthumus] my circumstances ... / Must first induce you to believe |
| Ham I.v.127 | [Hamlet to Horatio and Marcellus] without more circumstance at all [also: sense 5] |
| KJ II.i.77 | [Chatillon to King Philip, of the English] The interruption of their churlish drums / Cuts off more circumstance |
| MA III.ii.91 | [Don John to Don Pedro and Claudio, of Hero] circumstances shortened ... the lady is disloyal |
| Oth III.iii.403 | [Iago to Othello] If imputation and strong circumstance ... / Will give you satisfaction |
| RJ II.v.36 | [Juliet to Nurse, of whether the news is good or bad] Say either, and I'll stay the circumstance |
| RJ V.iii.181 | [First Watchman to other members of the Watch, of dead Romeo, Juliet, and Paris] the true ground of all these piteous woes / We cannot without circumstance descry |
| Ven.844 | [of lovers' being oblivious to time passing] others, they think, delight / In suchlike circumstance |
| WT III.ii.17 | [Officer reading the indictment, of Hermione's supposed plot, and of Polixenes and Camillo] the pretence whereof being by circumstances partly laid open, thou ... didst counsel and aid them |
| WT V.ii.31 | [Third Gentleman to all, of the rumour that Perdita is found] Most true, if ever truth were pregnant by circumstance |