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

"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

I lay a wager I guess your thoughts.”

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 by

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

Wilt lay a wager with me that another two months will not find John Drayton fighting by my side?

From Peggy Owen at Yorktown by Madison, Lucy Foster