| 1H6 III.i.44 | [Winchester to Gloucester] what are you, I pray, / But one imperious in another's throne? [i.e. acting like a king] |
| 2H4 I.i.62 | [Northumberland to Lord Bardolph, of Morton's expression] So looks the strand whereon the imperious flood / Hath left a witnessed usurpation |
| 2H4 III.i.20 | [King Henry IV alone, of sleep affecting a ship-boy] Wilt thou ... rock his brains / In cradle of the rude imperious surge |
| AC IV.xv.23 | [Cleopatra to Antony] Not th'imperious show / Of the full-fortuned Caesar ever shall / Be brooched with me |
| Cym IV.ii.35 | [Innogen to herself] Th'emperious seas breed monsters |
| Ham V.i.209 | [Hamlet to Horatio] Imperious Caesar [Q1,Q2; F Imperiall] |
| TC IV.v.172 | [Hector to Agamemnon] I thank thee, most imperious Agamemnon |
| Tit I.i.253 | [Titus to Saturninus, of his sword, prisoner, and chariot] Presents well worthy Rome's imperious lord |
| Ven.996 | [of Venus and death] She clepes him ... / Imperious supreme of all mortal things |