| CE V.i.308 | [Egeon to Antipholus and Dromio of Ephesus] O time's extremity |
| Cym III.iv.17 | [Innogen to Pisanio] thy tongue / May take off some extremity [i.e. reduce the extreme shock] |
| H8 V.i.19 | [Lovell to Gardiner] The Queen's in labour ... in great extremity |
| Ham II.ii.190 | [Polonius to himself] I suffered much extremity for love |
| JC II.i.31 | [Brutus alone, of Caesar] what he is, augmented, / Would run to these and these extremities |
| KL III.iv.99 | [Lear to Edgar as Poor Tom] Thou wert better in a grave than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies |
| Luc.969 | [Lucrece as if to time] Devise extremes beyond extremity, / To make him curse this cursed crimeful night |
| RJ II.chorus.14 | [Chorus, of Romeo and Juliet] Tempering extremities with extreme sweet |
| WT V.ii.117 | [Autolycus alone, of the voyage] extremity of weather continuing |