lay a wager
Example Sentences
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I'll lay a wager Chatterton will give you a lot of stuff like the "Friar's Bridge" when he sees you.'
From Bristol Bells A Story of the Eighteenth Century by Emma Marshall
“I’ll lay a wager, Gregory, that our friends don’t make such another shot as that to-day.”
From Mother Carey's Chicken Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle by A. Forestier
Of those renowned in life I will lay a wager I will find more that have died before they came to five-and-thirty years than after.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
I lay a wager I guess your thoughts.”
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 by
They started for the main street at a trot, and Vane panted out:— “I’ll lay a wager that the engine’s locked up, and that they can’t find the keys.”
From The Weathercock Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias by A.W. Cooper
