lay a wager

Example Sentences

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I’ll lay a wager this is the spot where they live when they’re at home and go yowling about.”

From The Golden Magnet by Fenn, George Manville

I will lay a wager that he sold it for six.”

From Anecdotes for Boys by Newcomb, Harvey

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 Beach, Charles A.

And you seem to be out of spirits; but I lay a wager I can cheer you up.

From The Comedies of Carlo Goldoni edited with an introduction by Helen Zimmern by Goldoni, Carlo

"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 Duncan, Norman