| Luc.741 | [of Lucrece] She stays, exclaiming on the direful night |
| Mac I.ii.26 | [Captain to King] the sun 'gins his reflection, / Shipwracking storms and direful thunders |
| Oth V.i.38 | [Gratiano to Lodovico] the cry is very direful |
| R3 IV.iv.85 | [Queen Margaret to Queen Elizabeth] I called thee ... / The flattering index of a direful pageant |
| RJ V.iii.225 | [Friar to Prince, of himself] Yet most suspected, as the time and place / Doth make against me, of this direful murder |
| Tem I.ii.26 | [Prospero to Miranda] The direful spectacle of the wrack |
| Tit V.iii.143 | [Marcus to Attendants, of bringing Aaron] To be adjudged some direful slaught'ring death |
| Ven.98 | [Venus to Adonis] I entreat thee now, / Even by the stern and direful god of war |