Betting men who ignore these things are as unintellectual as the average novelist.
I have even heard of men betting as to which of two raindrops on a window-pane will reach the bottom first.
But it is obvious that the sincere betting man has to make such calculations daily.
For myself, I shrink from them and, if I were a betting man, would no doubt in sheer desperation be driven back on the method of pin and pencil.
They are all believers in what is called information, and information is simply the betting man's name for gossip.
It is perhaps, however, when we leave questions of breeding and come to those of form, that we realise most fully the amazing intellectualism of the betting life.
The betting man must be as well versed in precedents as a lawyer and in genealogical trees as a historian.
The intellectual betting man, on the other hand, has a position somewhere between the extremes of Calvinism and Epicureanism.
No betting man would have backed the field for a shilling.
Betting the entire stack of chips he reached for the dice.
Betting was light and he didn't push himself, just kept away from the sevens.
By the way, what are theybetting about this young Kettering?
The horses start, and now betting and excitement go hand in hand.
Gambling and betting are at their height: vast sums of money change hands at the conclusion of the races, and many inexperienced as well as reckless ones leave the field at night ruined men.
Are you betting on the magnolia tree with anybody this winter?
The horsemen made for a neighbouring hill, whence they could command a wider view; and the bettingwent on briskly, varying according to the vicissitudes of the race.
Now I don't mind betting it will be in Paris before the year's out.
They get betting with the Nawabs and offering 'em drinks.
The crowd, however, which had been bettingfreely on the event, hesitated; the supporters of the dust-thrower grumbled.
The betting continued, Hugh sure that Allen was bluffing, but Allen never failed to raise him ten dollars on every bet.
He had decided to "play close," never betting unless he held something worth putting his money on.
He played carefully, never daring to enter a big pot, never betting for more than his hands were worth.
In other words, they are betting 25 to 1 on an even proposition.
He has robb'd the till, And lost the money, betting at a mill!
Only I don't mind betting that a dozen or two more of the same sort were let in without tickets to-day.
He might probably have been taken for a betting man, with whom the world had latterly gone well enough to enable him to maintain that sleek, easy, greasy appearance which seems to be the beau-ideal of a betting man's personal ambition.
In those days poolrooms were a much greater evil than they are at the present time, and the betting on baseball was hot and heavy.
Odds in money cut no figure from a betting point of view, As I've found in life quite often, and, I doubt not, so have you.
You must get hisbetting book from his pocket," Sir Richard directed.
His wife is a bright, clever little woman, and knows how to make the house happy for him; if he had married a lackadaisical sort of a woman, the betting is he would have gone to the bad altogether.
I was speaking of them purely as a spectacle; individually I have no doubt one would be safer among the English roughs and betting men than among these placid looking natives.
There is not much use in betting now, Mr. Wilson," Isobel said sadly.
You can ask me that, when by your own confession you are betting and gambling, and leading a double life--when you are throwing away money which is needed for daily bread!
The two had attended theatres and concerts together, and finally Barney had visited his new friend in his rooms, and become the confidant of certain betting transactions in which he was in the habit of indulging.
The insurance clerks were interviewed again and again, but Barney had been prudent in one respect at least--he had not breathed a word of his betting transactions in the office.
The manager calls out the names of the first pair to contend, one from each side, and at the same time announces his opinion how the betting should run.
The principal reason assigned weighs heavy on the wrestlers themselves: it is no less than glaring collusion, engendered by unprincipled betting men.
Fresh animated betting goes on while they prepare for the onset; and it may be this fondness for gambling--common to most eastern countries--which helps to keep up the popularity of wrestling.
As a matter of fact one horse-race is very much like another in its main incidents, and the process of betting against or in favour of one horse resembles, more or less, the process of betting about any other.
Again, in recording the upward progress of horses in the betting market, it would be ridiculous to say of all of them merely that they became hot favourites.
They re betting on you, I may tell you, down in the village, but I don't mind that!
The time for talking and cheering and betting was past, the hour for action had arrived.
You arranged for the payment of that bill with a betting man, who had received it from Jeremiah Pamflett.
It would be tantamount to a confession that he had been indulging in that worst of vices--betting on horses.
Melanctha knew he had had trouble with his betting but Melanctha never felt that that could make any difference to them.
Sometimes Jem would be betting badly, and then he would not be having any money.
Sometimes Jem Richards would be betting and would be good and lucky, and be making lots of money.
The library and the works of art are described as heirlooms, which have passed into the possession of the present proprietor--one more among the hundreds of Englishmen who are ruined every year by betting on the Turf.
The testimony of his creditors, and of other persons with whom he associated distinctly proves that his leisure hours on shore had been employed in card-playing and in betting on horse races.
Now, if I was a betting man, I'd wager a sixpence you couldn't do it again.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "betting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
