lay a wager

Example Sentences

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I will lay a wager it is the servant of the officer with whom you are in love.

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

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

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

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

But come, now, I would lay a wager you are no coward?”

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI by Stevenson, Robert Louis