lay a wager
Example Sentences
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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 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
"I will lay a wager," quoth Sancho, "you took me from the first, only you had a mind to puzzle me, that you might hear some more of my blunders."
From Heathen Mythology by Various
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 Sir John Alexander Hammerton
Wilt lay a wager on’t, my little maid?”
From Peggy Owen at Yorktown by Lucy Foster Madison
"Let us lay a wager on it," said the Englishmen.
From Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen
