lay a wager
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Nobody is stirring there yet, I'll lay a wager.
From Bristol Bells A Story of the Eighteenth Century by Emma Marshall
They know that they have done wrong; and I’d lay a wager, there’s not an hour of the day that they’re not thinking of me, and dreading that I will make my appearance.
From Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone by Charles A. Beach
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 Carlo Goldoni
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 Carlo Goldoni
I lay a wager I will get a smile from her.'
From Penshurst Castle In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney by Emma Marshall
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