| 2H4 IV.iv.35 | [King Henry IV to Clarence, of Prince Henry] being incensed, he is ... as sudden / As flaws congealed in the spring of day |
| 2H6 III.i.354 | [York alone, of having the crown] Do calm the fury of this mad-bred flaw |
| Cor V.iii.74 | [Coriolanus to Young Martius] stick i'th' wars / Like a great sea-mark, standing every flaw |
| Ham V.i.212 | [Hamlet to Horatio] t'expel the winter's flaw |
| Mac III.iv.62 | [Lady Macbeth to Macbeth] these flaws and starts ... would well become / A woman's story at a winter's fire [i.e. these gusts of passion] |
| Per III.i.39 | [Pericles to First Sailor] I do not fear the flaw |
| Ven.456 | [of Adonis' mouth] Like a red morn, that ever yet betokened ... / Gusts and foul flaws to herdmen and to herds |