| AW II.i.27 | [Bertram to Parolles] I am commanded here, and kept a coil with / 'Too young' [i.e. pestered with such words as] |
| CE III.i.48 | [Luce to Dromio of Ephesus] What a coil is there |
| E3 IV.vi.11 | [Prince Edward to Artois] What need we fight and sweat and keep a coil [i.e. make such ado] |
| Ham III.i.67 | [Hamlet alone] When we have shuffled off this mortal coil [i.e. the bustle of life] |
| KJ II.i.165 | [Arthur to Constance] I am not worth this coil that's made for me |
| MA III.iii.91 | [Dogberry to all] there is a great coil tonight |
| MA V.ii.87 | [Ursula to Beatrice] Yonder's old coil at home |
| MND III.ii.339 | [Hermia to Helena] all this coil is 'long of you |
| RJ II.v.65 | [Juliet to Nurse] Here's such a coil! |
| Tem I.ii.207 | [Prospero to Ariel] Who was so firm ... that this coil / Would not infect his reason? |
| TG I.ii.99 | [Julia to Lucetta] Here is a coil with protestation |
| Tim I.ii.235.2 | [Apemantus to Timon] What a coil's here |
| Tit III.i.223 | [Titus to Marcus] wilt thou have a reason for this coil? |
| TNK II.iii.18 | [Gaoler's Daughter alone] in my heart was Palamon, and there, / Lord, what a coil he keeps! [i.e. fuss he makes] |