I heard some bets $50 to $25 on the big Arkansas man, so I gave a friend of mine a roll and told him to take all the odds.
My friend Johnnie Hawkins took all the bets that he could get in that short time.
I went under the wire about ten lengths ahead of Dick, and the fellows that had taken some of the $100 to $5 bets raised the yell and kept it up until you would have thought they were a pack of wild Indians.
He might have to sell up almost everything he possessed in order to pay his bets honorably; and that he must do, or he gave away his only hope of recouping his bad luck.
In a match game (where both parties are marryin for money) aul sidebets are konsidered off--George Wilkes told me so.
So he now puts dollar bets on all three numbers, and after a couple more turns he's collecting on 33, and the next time 22 comes again.
I followed and found Cora barely surviving because she's lost nine of her three-dollar bets while Sandy was away, leaving her only about a hundred winner.
It must of been a horrible strain on her, for the man was raking in all the little bets and leaving the five-dollar one that win.
I'll take yu if yu bets th' other way," responded Johnny, grinning.
Say, Hopalong, I bets yu I kin clean up C 80 all by my lonesome," announced Buck, winking at Red.
I've laid my bets to win or lose, and I'll be there to cash in after the finish," he said philosophically.
I had already failed twice with what I rated as decidedly better bets than that one, and the time limit was nearly up.
In the gambling resorts and on the streets bets were made and pools formed on the probable duration of King's life.
Said the Bulletin's editorial columns: "Bets are now being offered, we have been told, that the editor of the Bulletin will not be in existence twenty days longer.
On the contrary, he suffered him to excite the spirit of rivalship in its utmost fury by collecting the bets of all the school.
The spectators having viewed the birds carefully, the bets are made, by calling one of the men who are constantly walking round the outside of the arena, for the purpose of arranging the amounts of bets ventured on either of the birds.
Many a poor little fellow bets sweetmeats upon his kite to the extent of his only anna in the world; and many a rich baboo has more rupees at stake than he can conveniently spare.
Bets are freely offered and accepted either in sweetmeats or money; and the crowd, condensing, move to and fro in a huge wave, from which their eager voices arise like the continuous roaring of the sea.
But when you take JACK JONES'S half-crown he no more bets on Joe Miller than on the Moon.
Large bets are often wagered on the result of this favourite game, which is also often played by the squaws, the men standing round encouraging them to bet, and laughing loudly at their grotesque excitement.
Bets are frequently laid on the hardness or otherwise of a particular nut, known among the Maláyus by the term búa kras and called áduh gemíri.
Bets also frequently depend on the flying of kites (layáng'an).
The small well formed bulls of Súmenáp afford considerable amusement in this way, while considerable bets are laid on the result of the combat.
It's a shame, and a low trick of his," Warton said, remembering with anything but pleasure the bets he had just made.
Joe Warton won the bets he was in such a hurry to make, and he spent the money in furnishing a house for Pretty Polly Short, who became Mrs Warton after all.
I will take a thousand to five hundred from any one," said Buckeen, who liked to talk loudly about bets which no one who knew him would think of taking from him or dream of his ever intending to pay.
Look here, are you going to do anything about the races, because don't make any bets till you have seen me.
However, he saw that it would be very difficult to prove any knowledge, and saw that he would have to pay the bets he would lose.
The Diggers' Stakes would come to about five hundred pounds; besides that Jack had about a thousand pounds in bets for that race, for he stood half of the bet Crotty had laid Gideon.
It was no doubt true that after a man’s death, hisbets were irrecoverable and his betting-book useless.
It was, however, useful to enable Palmer to give a list of bets to Herring to collect, the proceeds of which were turned to his own use, and the previous collection of which Palmer withheld from Stevens.
Bets were freely made by every man in my gun crew, with the odds of 5 to 1, that the Huns would get it.
Books#: an arrangement of betson a race recorded in a book, and so calculated that the book-maker generally wins something, whatever the result.
They had pitted us like game-cocks, and bets were freely taken as to the chances of our killing one another, and the particular spots.
Bets were frequently laid on the subject, and an action raised before Lord Mansfield in 1777 for the recovery of one of these bets brought the question to a judicial decision, by which d'Eon was declared a female.
To save you from spending your money on bets which you are sure to lose, remember that no man can be a great advocate who is no lawyer.
Bets were freely offered and taken regarding the result.
Three to five that "Sal would get through with it;" even that the child would survive; side bets as to the sex and complexion of the coming stranger.
If they were to hurt Jim Harrison the battle could not be fought, and the bets would not be decided.
The amateurs, falling into the humour of their company, were hardly less noisy, and loudly debated the merits of the different men, criticizing their styles of fighting before their faces, and making bets upon the results of future matches.
Bets were immediately proposed by some of the most thoughtless on his recovery, and accepted by others.
They speak of the old plantation, jeer each other about the value of themselves, offer bets on the price they will bring, assert a superiority over each other, and boast of belonging to some particular grade of the property.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
