lay a wager

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Then I'll lay a wager, Conti, that it is the portrait of the artist's own mistress.

From The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise by Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim

I will lay a wager that you have grown captious, fretful, and disposed to take trouble on interest.

From The Last Penny and Other Stories by Croome, William

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

"There, you are talking about flowers, I lay a wager," she says, returning the bow of Jacques, and laughing.

From The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 by Anonymous

I will lay a wager, that your whole hospital has not had so much small-pox as Mrs. Katy Quincy.

From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Adams, Abigail