| AC V.i.43 | [Caesar to all, of Antony] my competitor / In top of all design [i.e. in the greatest of undertakings] |
| AW III.vi.38 | [First Lord to Bertram, of Parolles] hinder not the honour of his design |
| Cym III.v.154 | [Cloten to Pisanio] thou wilt be a voluntary mute to my design |
| LLL IV.i.87 | [Boyet reading Armado's letter to Jaquenetta] Thine in the dearest design of industry |
| LLL V.i.95 | [Armado to Holofernes] among other importunate and most serious designs |
| Mac II.i.55 | [Macbeth alone] withered Murder ... towards his design / Moves like a ghost |
| R2 I.iii.45 | [Lord Marshal to Bolingbroke, of the lists] officers / Appointed to direct these fair designs |
| R2 II.ii.44 | [Queen Isabel to Green, of King Richard] his designs crave haste |
| R3 I.ii.210 | [Richard to Anne, of Henry's cortege] leave these sad designs |
| R3 III.iv.24 | [Richard to all] I trust / My absence doth neglect no great design / Which by my presence might have been concluded |
| R3 III.vii.66 | [Buckingham to Catesby, of Richard] the Mayor and Aldermen, / In deep designs ... / Are come to have some conference with his grace |
| R3 IV.iv.417 | [King Richard to Queen Elizabeth] be not peevish-fond in great designs |
| TC I.iii.102 | [Ulysses to all, of degree] Which is the ladder to all high designs |
| TC II.ii.195 | [Troilus to Hector, of his speech] there you touched the life of our design |
| WT IV.iv.499 | [Florizel to Camillo] I have / A vessel rides fast by, but not prepared / For this design |