| 1H4 V.ii.83 | [Hotspur to all] the time of life is short! / To spend that shortness basely were too long / If life did ride upon a dial's point |
| 3H6 II.v.24 | [King alone] it were a happy life ... / To carve out dials quaintly, point by point |
| AW II.v.5 | [Lafew to Bertram] Then my dial goes not true |
| AYL II.vii.20 | [Jaques to all, of Touchstone] then he drew a dial from his poke |
| AYL II.vii.33 | [Jaques to all, of Touchstone] I did laugh ... / An hour by his dial |
| CE V.i.118 | [Second Merchant to all] the dial points at five |
| H5 I.ii.211 | [Canterbury to all] many lines close in the dial's centre |
| Luc.327 | [] those bars which stop the hourly dial |
| Oth III.iv.171 | [Bianca to Cassio] lovers' absent hours / More tedious than the dial eightscore times! |
| R2 V.v.53 | [Richard alone] my finger, like a dial's point |
| RJ II.iv.110 | [Mercutio to Nurse] the bawdy hand of the dial is now upon the prick of noon |
| Sonn.104.9 | []yet doth beauty, like a dial hand, / Steal from his figure |
| Sonn.77.2 | [] Thy dial [will show] how thy precious minutes waste |