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Do you really think after what she did for me, I will slight her memory and example by just giving up?

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2025

Think not, daughter, we will slight thee,   Since so many claim our love; Gladly—wish we to delight thee,   As we look for help Above.

From The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales in Verse Together with Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects by Cowherd, Thomas

It may be," the forlorn one said, "it may be, you will slight it, my pretty baby sweet, You will spurn me from your bosom, I'll cling around your feet!

From The History of Pendennis by Thackeray, William Makepeace

Some will hate thee, some will love thee, Some will flatter, some will slight; Cease from man and look above thee, Trust in God and do the right.

From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by Mudge, James

Cauliflowers, predict that all your friends will slight you, or that you will fall into poverty and find no one to pity you.

From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 by Mackay, Charles