lay a wager

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I will lay a wager, that your whole hospital has not had so much small-pox as Mrs. Katy Quincy.

From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Adams, Abigail

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 Reid, Mayne

"There, you are talking about flowers, I lay a wager," she says, returning the bow of Jacques, and laughing.

From The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 by Anonymous

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 Cooper, A.W.

I lay a wager that it righted soon after evicting Jack.”

From Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Miller, Barnette