| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.68 | be so, as fast as she answers thee with frowning looks, | be so, as fast / As she answeres thee with frowning lookes, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.23 | Worthy his frowning at. Their discipline – | Worthy his frowning at. Their discipline, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.18 | He goes hence frowning: but it honours us | He goes hence frowning: but it honours vs |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.4 | As frowning at the favours of the world? | As frowning at the Fauours of the world? |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.iv.33.1 | Pass away frowning. | Passe away frowning. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.203.1 | Exit King, frowning upon the Cardinal; the nobles | Exit King, frowning vpon the Cardinall, the Nobles |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.205 | He parted frowning from me, as if ruin | He parted Frowning from me, as if Ruine |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.114.1 | Enter the King frowning on them; takes his seat | Enter King frowning on them, takes his Seate. |
| King John | KJ II.i.505 | Hanged in the frowning wrinkle of her brow | Hang'd in the frowning wrinkle of her brow, |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.188 | to care for her frowning. Now thou art an 0 without a | to care for her frowning, now thou art an O without a |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.56 | bad habit of frowning than the Count Palatine; he is | bad habite of frowning then the Count Palentine, he is |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.85 | The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars, | The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars, |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.16 | And frowning brow to brow, ourselves will hear | And frowning brow to brow, our selues will heare |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.188 | Unto the frowning judge? Or who pronounced | Vnto the frowning Iudge? Or who pronounc'd |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.188 | The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night, | The gray ey'd morne smiles on the frowning night. Checkring the Easterne Cloudes with streaks of light: And fleckled darknesse like a drunkard reeles. From forth daies path. and Titans burning wheeles: Now ere the Sun aduance his burning eye. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.1 | Now, ere the sun advance his burning eye | The gray ey'd morne smiles on the frowning night, / Checkring the Easterne Cloudes with streaks of light: / And fleckled darknesse like a drunkard reeles, / From forth daies path, and Titans burning wheeles: / Now ere the Sun aduance his burning eye, |