lay a wager
Example Sentences
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Nobody is stirring there yet, I'll lay a wager.
From Bristol Bells A Story of the Eighteenth Century by Marshall, Emma
I’ll lay a wager with you that this car tumbles off the bank before five minutes are past.”
From Lord Stranleigh Abroad by Barr, Robert
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
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
"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
