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 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
They started for the main street at a trot, and Vane panted out:— “I’ll lay a wager that the engine’s locked up, and that they can’t find the keys.”
From The Weathercock Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias by A.W. Cooper
I lay a wager I will get a smile from her.'
From Penshurst Castle In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney by Emma Marshall
They know that they have done wrong; and I’d lay a wager, there’s not an hour of the day that they’re not thinking of me, and dreading that I will make my appearance.
From Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone by Charles A. Beach
I’ll lay a wager with you that this car tumbles off the bank before five minutes are past.”
From Lord Stranleigh Abroad by Robert Barr
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