lay a wager
Example Sentences
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She's gone back to Deep Dale, I'll lay a wager.
From Sharing Her Crime by Fleming, May Agnes
"Let us lay a wager on it," said the Englishman.
From Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales Second Series by Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)
"Let us lay a wager on it," said the Englishmen.
From Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)
"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," 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
