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If the Signes hit twenty times for one missing, a Man may lay a Wager of Twenty to One of the event; but may not conclude it for a Truth.

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I will lay a wager that these two states will have better budgets and better economic growth over the next 10 years than either IL or CT, which may well be bankrupt.

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Finals, to lay a wager on which arcing shot, improbable steal or rebound would turn this game, was to ensure you’d go flat broke.

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And then I overheard her say, “Look, let’s make the wager. The only way to find out what we honestly believe, and not just what we wish we believe, is to lay a wager.”

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True, you cannot well lay a wager about Athelstan or Edred, who have been dead a considerable time, something, in fact, a little under a thousand years,—and they never played things low down for “records” or took sordid cheques or shared in “gate-money”; but they are still interesting, and made things so lively in their days that some of their doings have been handed down through ten centuries—and that is a kind of “record” in itself!

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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