| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.171 | Have knit again, and fleet, threatening most sea-like. | Haue knit againe, and Fleete, threatning most Sea-like. |
| As You Like It | AYL I.i.49 | (threatening him) | |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.10 | Excludes all pity from our threatening looks. | Excludes all pitty from our threatning lookes: |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.36 | Ransoming him or pitying, threatening th' other; | Ransoming him, or pittying, threatning th' other; |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.503 | ‘ Run barefoot up and down, threatening the flames | Run bare-foot vp and downe, / Threatning the flame |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.110 | This is his claim, his threatening, and my message – | This is his Clayme, his Threatning, and my Message: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iii.17 | And not with such a cruel threatening look! | And not with such a cruell threatning Looke. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.58 | Now death shall stop his dismal threatening sound | Now death shall stop his dismall threatning sound, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iii.4 | I spy a black, suspicious, threatening cloud, | I spy a black suspicious threatning Cloud, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.8 | To be exalted with the threatening clouds; | To be exalted with the threatning Clouds: |
| King John | KJ III.iv.120 | She looks upon them with a threatening eye. | Shee lookes vpon them with a threatning eye: |
| King John | KJ V.ii.73 | Therefore thy threatening colours now wind up, | Therefore thy threatning Colours now winde vp, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iii.24 | Having bound up the threatening twigs of birch, | Hauing bound vp the threatning twigs of birch, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.51 | Let's march without the noise of threatening drum, | Let's march without the noyse of threatning Drum, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.135 | Fie, fie, unknit that threatening unkind brow, | Fie, fie, vnknit that thretaning vnkinde brow, |