lay a wager

Example Sentences

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"I would lay a wager that thou art in love with her already," said Selim.

From Hania by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

I’ll lay a wager this is the spot where they live when they’re at home and go yowling about.”

From The Golden Magnet by Fenn, George Manville

"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

"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 lay a wager that it righted soon after evicting Jack.”

From Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Miller, Barnette