lay a wager

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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

"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 durst lay a wager," said Don Quixote, interrupting him, "that now thou art suffered to prate without interruption, thou feelest no manner of pain in thy whole body.

From The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de

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

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

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

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