lay a wager
Example Sentences
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Wilt lay a wager on’t, my little maid?”
From Peggy Owen at Yorktown by Madison, Lucy Foster
She's gone back to Deep Dale, I'll lay a wager.
From Sharing Her Crime by Fleming, May Agnes
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)
"Let us lay a wager on it," said the Englishman.
From Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales Second Series by Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)
I lay a wager that it righted soon after evicting Jack.”
From Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Miller, Barnette
