William Shakespeare 的 Sonnet 20 中有 “A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted / Hast thou, the master-mistress of my passion; … / And for a woman wert thou first created; / Till Nature, as she wrought thee, fell a-doting, / And by addition me of thee defeated, / By adding one thing to my purpose nothing. / But since she prick'd thee out for women's pleasure, / Mine be thy love and thy love's use their treasure.”(其中出现 “shape” 相关用法/语境,常见为指“外形、身姿”的表达)
Herman Melville 的 Moby-Dick 中多处使用 shape 描写“形体/轮廓”,用于营造海上景象与未知之物的“轮廓感”(如对鲸与海雾中事物的形状描写)