| 2H4 IV.v.134 | [King Henry IV to Prince Henry] O my poor kingdom, sick with civil blows! |
| 2H4 V.v.109 | [Prince John to Lord Chief Justice] ere this year expire, / We bear our civil swords and native fire / As far as France |
| 2H6 IV.viii.43 | [Clifford to rebels, of the French] Methinks already in this civil broil / I see them lording it in London streets |
| AC I.iii.45 | [Antony to Cleopatra] Our Italy / Shines o'er with civil swords [i.e. is bright everywhere with the flashing of swords] |
| R2 I.iii.128 | [King Richard to Bolingbroke and Mowbray] our eyes do hate the dire aspect / Of civil wounds |
| R2 III.iii.102 | [Northumberland to King Richard] The King of heaven forbid our lord the King / Should so with civil and uncivil arms / Be rushed upon |
| RJ I.prologue.4 | [Chorus] civil blood makes civil hands unclean [first instance] |
| Tit V.iii.86 | [Marcus to Lucius] who hath brought the fatal engine in / That gives our Troy, our Rome, the civil wound |
| Ven.764 | [Venus to Adonis] in thyself thyself art made away; / A mischief worse than civil home-bred strife |