| 2H4 I.i.102 | [Northumberland to Morton, of the bringer of unwelcome news] his tongue / Sounds ever after as a sullen bell / Remembered tolling a departing friend |
| KJ I.i.28 | [King John to Chatillon] Be thou the ... sullen presage of your own decay |
| R2 I.iii.227 | [John of Gaunt to King Richard] Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow [QQ; F: sudden] |
| R2 I.iii.265 | [John of Gaunt to Bolingbroke] The sullen passage of thy weary steps |
| R2 V.vi.48 | [King Henry to all] put on sullen black incontinent |
| RJ IV.v.88 | [Capulet to all, of the change from wedding to funeral] Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change |
| Sonn.71.2 | [] you shall hear the surly sullen bell |