| Cor III.i.248 | [Cominius to Coriolanus] Will you hence / Before the tag return ... and o'erbear / What they are used to bear? |
| Cor IV.v.134 | [Aufidius to Coriolanus, of Rome] Like a bold flood o'erbear't [F o're-beate] |
| Cor IV.vi.79 | [Second Messenger to all] A fearful army, ... have already / O'erborne their way |
| Cym V.iii.48 | [Posthumus to Lord, of the retreating Romans] some their friends / O'erborne i'th' former wave |
| H5 IV.chorus.39 | [Chorus, of King Henry] he ... overbears attaint / With cheerful semblance |
| Ham IV.v.104 | [Messenger to Claudius] Laertes, in a riotous head, / O'erbears your officers |
| KJ III.iv.9 | [King Philip to Cardinal Pandulph, of King John] And bloody England into England gone, / O'erbearing interruption, in spite of France |
| MA II.iii.152 | [Leonato to Claudio, of Beatrice] the ecstasy hath so much overborne her |
| Mac IV.iii.64 | [Malcolm to Macduff] my desire / All continent impediments would o'erbear / That did oppose my will |
| MND II.i.92 | [Titania to Oberon] Contagious fogs ... falling in the land, / Hath every pelting river made so proud / That they have overborne their continents |
| Per V.i.194 | [Pericles to Helicanus] Lest this great sea of joys rushing upon me / O'erbear the shores of my mortality |