| KJ II.i.574 | [Bastard alone] Commodity, the bias of the world [i.e. the property which pulls people from their steady course] |
| KL I.ii.111 | [Gloucester to Edmund] the King falls from bias of nature [i.e. loses his natural affection] |
| LLL IV.ii.109 | [Nathaniel reading Berowne's letter to Rosaline] Study his bias leaves and makes his book thine eyes [i.e. the student leaves his inclination to study] |
| TN V.i.257 | [Sebastian to Olivia] you have been mistook. / But nature to her bias drew in that |
| TS IV.v.25 | [Petruchio to Hortensio] Thus the bowl should run, / And not unluckily against the bias |