lay a wager
Example Sentences
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"Now, I'll lay a wager you are thinking about me!" cried Hoffland; "perhaps you still revolve in your mind my various delinquencies."
From The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 by Anonymous
Wilt lay a wager on’t, my little maid?”
From Peggy Owen at Yorktown by Madison, Lucy Foster
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 Englishmen.
From Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)
And you seem to be out of spirits; but I lay a wager I can cheer you up.
From The Comedies of Carlo Goldoni edited with an introduction by Helen Zimmern by Goldoni, Carlo
