lay a wager

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"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

We did lay a wager, but I had no idea that the youngster would decide it in that preposterous way.

From Vineta The Phantom City by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)

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

I lay a wager I will get a smile from her.'

From Penshurst Castle In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney by Marshall, Emma