| 1H4 V.i.111 | [King Henry to Worcester] Rebuke and dread correction wait on us, / And they shall do their office |
| 2H6 III.ii.330 | [Queen to Suffolk] these dread curses ... recoil / And turns the force of them upon thyself |
| H5 IV.chorus.36 | [Chorus, of King Henry] Upon his royal face there is no note / How dread an army hath enrounded him |
| Ham II.ii.453 | [Hamlet to First Player, quoting lines about Pyrrhus] this dread and black complexion smeared / With heraldry more dismal |
| KL II.ii.121 | [Oswald to Cornwall, of disguised Kent] in the fleshment of this dread exploit / Drew on me here again [Q; F dead] |
| LLL I.i.126 | [Longaville to Berowne, of a penalty for women approaching the court] To fright them hence with that dread penalty |
| Luc.965 | [Lucrece to herself] this dread night, wouldst thou one hour come back, / I could prevent this storm and shun thy wrack! |
| Mac IV.i.143 | [Macbeth to himself] Time, thou anticipat'st my dread exploits |
| R2 III.iii.134 | [King Richard to Aumerle, of his tongue banishing Bolingbroke] That laid the sentence of dread banishment / On yon proud man |
| R3 I.iii.190 | [Queen Margaret to all] Did York's dread curse prevail so much with heaven |
| Tem I.ii.206.1 | [Ariel to Prospero, of Neptune] his dread trident shake |
| Tem V.i.44 | [Prospero alone] to the dread rattling thunder / Have I given fire |