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Meanings of lay a wager in English

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Usage of lay a wager in English
1
But come, now, I would lay a wager you are no coward?'
Lay Morals, and Other Papers
2
I'd lay a wager it was twelve or fifteen feet deep.
The Cinema Murder
3
I'll lay a wager of five louis it takes him two.
The Oracle Glass
4
No, she 's not an American, I 'll lay a wager on that.
Roderick Hudson
5
I could lay a wager they haven't left you any drink.
A Love Episode
6
And you've congratulated yourself on your marvellous discretion ever since, I'll lay a wager.
The Top of the World
7
I lay a wager he would have done better than your eight and twenty candidates.
The World's Great Men of Music: Story-Lives of Master Musicians
8
Let us lay a wager that I find out what is the matter with you?
A Hungarian Nabob
9
Nobody is stirring there yet, I'll lay a wager.
Bristol Bells: A Story of the Eighteenth Century
10
I lay a wager I guess your thoughts.
"My Novel" — Volume 09
11
And if I was smiling-I'lllay a wager I wasn't laughing-itwas because I'm so happy.
The Emigrant Trail
12
And I'll lay a wager we can get fine bricks out of the clay at Bott's corner.
Middlemarch
13
I will lay a wager that you have grown captious, fretful, and disposed to take trouble on interest.
The Last Penny and Other Stories
14
If I lay a wager, that I shall do, or not do a thing, am I not free?
Good Sense
15
He didn't know that you were Black Milsom's daughter; you didn't tell him that, I'll lay a wager.
Run to Earth: A Novel
16
It was generally believed that he had married her clandestinely; but I would lay a wager he never did.
Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV. and of the Regency — Volume 0...
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