| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.80 | Kinsman to grim and comfortless despair, | Kinsman to grim and comfortlesse dispaire, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iv.60 | Only in strokes, but with thy grim looks and | Onely in strokes, but with thy grim lookes, and |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.63 | Thou hast a grim appearance, and thy face | Thou hast a Grim apparance, and thy Face |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iii.19 | A second Hector, for his grim aspect | A second Hector, for his grim aspect, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iii.21 | And hemmed about with grim destruction. | And hem'd about with grim destruction: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.50 | Sits in grim majesty to fright the world. | Sits in grim Maiestie, to fright the World. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.154 | Sent many grim ambassadors of death. | Sent many grym Embassadors of death, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.158 | Nor half a halfpenny to shun grim death, | Nor halfe a halfepenie to shun grim death, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vii.18 | But say, what grim discouragement comes here! | But say, what grym discoragement comes heere, |
| King John | KJ III.i.43 | If thou that biddest me be content wert grim, | If thou that bidst me be content, wert grim |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.67 | Mastiff, greyhound, mongrel grim, | Mastiffe, Grey-hound, Mongrill, Grim, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.242 | Then was Venus like her mother, for her father is but grim. | Then was Venus like her mother, for her father is but grim. |
| Macbeth | Mac V.ii.4 | Would to the bleeding and the grim alarm | Would to the bleeding, and the grim Alarme |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.57 | So should a murderer look; so dead, so grim. | So should a mutrherer looke, so dead, so grim. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.167 | O grim-looked night, O night with hue so black, | O grim lookt night, ô night with hue so blacke, |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.63 | Ay, there look grim as hell! | I heere looke grim as hell. |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.202 | I know this act shows horrible and grim. | I know this acte shewes horrible and grim. |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.I.40 | As yon grim looks do testify. | As yon grimme lookes do testifie. |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.21 | To grim Necessity, and he and I | To grim Necessitie; and hee and I |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.33 | Grim death, how foul and loathsome is thine image! | Grim death, how foule and loathsome is thine image: |