lay a wager
Example Sentences
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I lay a wager I will get a smile from her.'
From Penshurst Castle In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney by Emma Marshall
I durst lay a wager," said Don Quixote, interrupting him, "that now thou art suffered to prate without interruption, thou feelest no manner of pain in thy whole body.
From The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Wilt lay a wager on’t, my little maid?”
From Peggy Owen at Yorktown by Lucy Foster Madison
"An I was still shrewder," says I, "I'd trust a surmise an' lay a wager that I was right."
From Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D. by Norman Duncan
I’ll lay a wager the miser outbids every one of you,—even rich generous Marigny here!”
From The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West by Mayne Reid
