lay a wager
Example Sentences
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I lay a wager I guess your thoughts.”
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 by
They know that they have done wrong; and I’d lay a wager, there’s not an hour of the day that they’re not thinking of me, and dreading that I will make my appearance.
From Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone by Charles A. Beach
She's gone back to Deep Dale, I'll lay a wager.
From Sharing Her Crime by May Agnes Fleming
"I would lay a wager that thou art in love with her already," said Selim.
From Hania by Henryk Sienkiewicz
I lay a wager that it righted soon after evicting Jack.”
From Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Barnette Miller
