| AC IV.i.9 | [Maecenas to Caesar, of Antony] Make boot of his distraction |
| H8 III.i.112 | [Wolsey to Queen Katherine, of her response] this is a mere distraction [also: evasion] |
| MW III.v.79 | [Falstaff to Ford as Brook, of Mistress Page] in her invention and Ford's wife's distraction |
| Sonn.119.8 | [] How have mine eyes out of their spheres been fitted / In the distraction of this madding fever! |
| TC V.ii.42 | [Ulysses to Troilus] You flow to great distraction |
| WT I.ii.149 | [Hermione to Leontes] You look / As if you held a brow of much distraction |
| WT V.ii.47 | [Third Gentleman to all, of the meeting between Leontes and Polixenes] There was ... countenance of such distraction that they were to be known by garment, not by favour |