lay a wager
Example Sentences
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She's gone back to Deep Dale, I'll lay a wager.
From Sharing Her Crime by Fleming, May Agnes
We resemble not the celebrated comedian, Mademoiselle Duclos, to whom somebody said: "I would lay a wager, mademoiselle, that you know not your credo!"
From A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" by Fran?ois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)
Of those renowned in life I will lay a wager I will find more that have died before they came to five-and-thirty years than after.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir
"You may lay a wager on that," replied Marek.
From On the Field of Glory An Historical Novel of the Time of King John Sobieski by Sienkiewicz, Henryk
"Let us lay a wager on it," said the Englishmen.
From Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)
