lay a wager

Example Sentences

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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 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

"An I was still shrewder," says I, "I'd trust a surmise an' lay a wager that I was right."

From Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D. by Duncan, Norman

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

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

Wilt lay a wager on’t, my little maid?”

From Peggy Owen at Yorktown by Madison, Lucy Foster