| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.8.1 | O'erbears it and burns on. | Ore-beares it, and burnes on. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.248 | Like interrupted waters, and o'erbear | Like interrupted Waters, and o're-beare |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.134 | Like a bold flood o'erbear't. O, come, go in, | Like a bold Flood o're-beate. Oh come, go in, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.104 | O'erbears your officers. The rabble call him lord, | Ore-beares your Officers, the rabble call him Lord, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.166 | But to command, to check, to o'erbear such | But to command, to check, to o're-beare such, |
| King John | KJ III.iv.9 | O'erbearing interruption, spite of France? | Ore-bearing interruption spight of France? |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.64 | All continent impediments would o'erbear | All continent Impediments would ore-beare |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.56 | Is of so floodgate and o'erbearing nature | Is of so flood-gate, and ore-bearing Nature, |
| Pericles | Per V.i.194 | O'erbear the shores of my mortality | ore-beare the shores of my mortalitie, |