| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.v.22 | terrible shows in the wrack of maidenhood, cannot for | terrible shewes in the wracke of maiden-hood, cannot for |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.i.2 | When you sally upon him speak what terrible | when you sallie vpon him, speake what terrible |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.3 | All strange and terrible events are welcome, | All strange and terrible euents are welcome, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iv.59 | Even to Cato's wish, not fierce and terrible | Euen to Calues wish, not fierce and terrible |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.i.28 | Poor ignorant baubles! – on our terrible seas, | (Poore ignorant Baubles) on our terrible Seas |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.242.2 | O, treble woe | Oh terrible woer, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.219 | me rest. I would to God my name were not so terrible | |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.35 | How terrible in constant resolution, | How terrible in constant resolution: |
| Henry V | H5 III.i.9 | Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; | Then lend the Eye a terrible aspect: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.v.8 | A terrible and unavoided danger. | A terrible and vnauoyded danger: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.iii.6 | Where death's approach is seen so terrible! | Where death's approach is seene so terrible. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.164 | They swell, and grow as terrible as storms. | They swell and grow, as terrible as stormes. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.130 | Most bloody, fiery, and most terrible. | Most bloodie, fierie, and most terrible. |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.47 | And I the elder and more terrible; | And I the elder and more terrible, |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.33 | No? What needed then that terrible dispatch | No? what needed then that terrible dispatch |
| King Lear | KL IV.vii.34 | In the most terrible and nimble stroke | |
| Macbeth | Mac I.ii.53 | Norway himself, with terrible numbers, | Norway himselfe, with terrible numbers, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vii.80 | Each corporal agent to this terrible feat. | Each corporall Agent to this terrible Feat. |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.54 | And prophesying, with accents terrible, | And Prophecying, with Accents terrible, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.ii.18 | In the affliction of these terrible dreams | In the affliction of these terrible Dreames, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.77 | Too terrible for the ear. The times has been | Too terrible for the eare. The times has bene, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.228 | were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living | were as terrible as terminations, there were no liuing |
| Othello | Oth I.i.83 | What is the reason of this terrible summons? | What is the reason of this terrible / Summons? |
| Pericles | Per III.i.56 | A terrible childbed hast thou had, my dear; | A terrible Child-bed hast thou had (my deare, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.133 | Would they make peace? Terrible hell | Would they make peace? terrible Hell |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.63 | Such terrible impression made my dream. | Such terrible Impression made my Dreame. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.264 | For mischiefs manifold, and sorceries terrible | For mischiefes manifold, and sorceries terrible |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.2 | Our terrible approach. | Our terrible approach. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.176 | for it comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a | for t comes to passe oft, that a terrible oath, with a |