I will wager it is he who does not want you to go to Paris?
And I will further wager that she is neither more nor less than one of those charming amazons at Souday.
I will wager that we are now going toward the lady of our thoughts.
Lavendale had made no comment upon the passage of time hitherto, and all his friends were inwardly chuckling over the trick that had been played him, which had been explained to them as a wager of Bolingbroke's.
Lady Polwhele, I'll wager those girlish feet of yours are impatient for a jig.
A man who is ready to wager a thousand pounds that no other man present has that amount in his pocket, can hardly feel unequal to his company.
In October, 1836, the time arrived for settling the matrimonial wager between Hawthorne and Jonathan Cilley, which they had made at college twelve years before.
Why is a portrait of Queen Elizabeth like a wager which is neither lost nor won?
Why is a man who never lays a wager as bad as a regular gambler?
I will wager anything and everything that she will take kindly to me, for, after all, she must be glad when she sees her son happy.
And what is most shameful is that I would wager that they have destroyed the statues which were the pride of the town and thrown them on a rubbish heap.
Imperial Highness," he commenced, "I wager you don't know what love is.
And then he started jawing about some fool wager he'd made, said he was under the thumb of some rascally booky, and actually began to try and talk me into spoiling the animal's chances.
And you don't suppose I would lay a wager against one of my own beasts, do you?
In the middle of the city was a great open square, and here the queen wished the wagerto take place.
Death stepped across the narrow line that surrounds the Land of Immortality, and the queen proposed the wager which was to decide the prince's fate.
But this once I will allow you to cross into my kingdom, and we will decide by a wagerwhose he is.
The championship is connected also with a remarkable feature of ancient jurisprudence, the wager of battle, recently abolished.
The wagerof battle was certainly of more splendid pretensions, and was introduced at first with these stipulations.
She was probably full of smells; and Dennison was ready to wager that in a moderate sea her rivets and bedplates whined, and that the pump never rested.
Now he has me, I'll wager he's half frightened out of his wits.
Giue them the Foyles yong Osricke, Cousen Hamlet, you know the wager Ham.
This is her Honor: Let it be granted you haue seene all this (and praise Be giuen to your remembrance) the description Of what is in her Chamber, nothing saues The wager you haue laid Iach.
I do embrace it freely, And will this Brothers wagerfrankely play.
Now faire befall thee good Petruchio; The wager thou hast won, and I will adde Vnto their losses twentie thousand crownes, Another dowrie to another daughter, For she is chang'd as she had neuer bin Petr.
Why, if two gods should play some heauenly match, And on the wager lay two earthly women, And Portia one: there must be something else Paund with the other, for the poore rude world Hath not her fellow Loren.
Nay, I will win my wager better yet, And show more signe of her obedience, Her new built vertue and obedience.
There are perhaps thirty men setting forth at that same hour, and I would lay a large wager there is not another dull face among the thirty.
From the Clyde to Sandy Hook I never heard a wager offered or taken.
The British officer was as anxious as Hull for a fight, and they drew near each other, both confident of winning the wager made half in jest a brief time before.
Dacres, was an old acquaintance of Hull, and the two had made a wager of a hat during peace that if they ever met in battle the other would run.
It is impossible to understand what they are saying, and the on-looker would be willing to wager a $10 gold piece against a silver dime with a hole in it that the performers do not hear or understand each other.
I'll make you any wager you like, Kate did the whole thing herself.
When we go into the drawing-room, Nina shall sing it for you, and I'll wageryou recant your opinion.
A noble young squire that lived in the West, He courted a young lady gay; And as he was merry he put forth a jest, A wager with her he would lay.
If you had waked me when she was here, The wager then had been mine.
He wakened and found the gold ring on his hand, Then sorrow of heart he was in; 'My love has been here, I do well understand, And this wager I now shall not win.
For now 'tis as clear as the sun, The money, the money, the money is mine, The wager I fairly have won.
A wager with me,' the young lady replied, 'I pray about what must it be?
I will wager he is hidden somewhere in the palace," Pierre said.
It may be a lady of noble family, or a poor kitchen wench, but that it is a woman I would wager my life.
I wager that she does not know that you are a cadet.
I wager that to-morrow he will ask somebody to present him to Princess Ligovski.
I wager fifty rubles to five that the pistol is not loaded!
Our wager is finished, and now your observations, it seems to me, are out of place.
Train--Were I a betting man I would wager ten thousand dollars that Kansas will give 5,000 majority for women.
We wager a big apple that the ladies referred to are not "beautiful" or accomplished.
Nay, so sure am I of him, that I would wager you ten Napoleons that we are not more than four or five miles from the chateau at this moment.
They made a wager of a new hat--the Sunday hat of beaver being still costly.
As a return for his action to win the hat, he asked Greene not to wager any more--a resolve which he took to oblige him.
For that reason I've been looking around to make a little wager on that game.
But a little wager on a baseball game, or any game of chance or skill, adds spice to it," suggested the manager of the Rovers.
I was in Wellsburg yesterday and gave the Herald certain information to be used in advertising this game, but I assure you I gave them no information concerning a wager of that sort.
But you're aware, I presume, that the law would not enforce the payment of that check in case you lost your wager and I attempted to collect.
I've made a little wageron this game, and I propose to win it.
Were you to wager that money and lose it, you would be robbing them of their just rights.
This article distinctly states that one of your friends, and a player on your team, has made a wager of ten thousand dollars that you'll beat the Rovers.
You know there's a report that a wager has been made on the result of this game.
I simply give you my assurance that I know nothing whatever of this ten-thousand-dollar wager, and I am satisfied that no such wager has been made.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wager" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
