| 2H4 III.ii.72 | [Bardolph to Shallow, of 'accommodated'] I have heard the word - phrase call you it? |
| Ham I.iv.19 | [Hamlet to Horatio, of outsiders' views of the Danes] They clepe us drunkards and with swinish phrase / Soil our addition |
| Ham II.ii.441 | [Hamlet to First Player] no matter in the phrase that might indict the author of affectation |
| KL IV.vi.8 | [Gloucester to disguised Edgar] thou speak'st / In better phrase and matter than thou didst |