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

"Let us lay a wager on it," said the Englishmen.

From Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)

"Let us lay a wager on it," said the Englishman.

From Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales Second Series by Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)

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

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