Caius rode away and many great ones came and went, as they had been doing; for they who were to make wagers willed to see these pirates of Caius, as they called them.
Caius is careful of his wagers and would not have thy men seen by the wrong eyes," he said, "but I have had fortune to beat his cunning by this meeting.
The games began with races, both of footmen and chariots, and in these the multitude were interested greatly, but only they who had wagers cared much who might win.
We will write these wagerswith care and let thy words be recorded with exactness.
It was after this that policies and wagers were carried on to such an incredible degree in the trial of her Grace of Kingston.
On the third day, when several expired from hunger or exposure, the assurance speculators were ready, and wagers were made as to the number who would die in the week.
At first wagers were made; but as there was no present mode of deciding whether this extraordinary individual was man or woman, they were quickly abandoned.
I'm going for Neptune, although I have laid some wagers against him to oblige customers,' replied Hyam.
Aaron Hyam was busy pencillingwagers down almost as fast as he could write, and his son, with numerous assistants, was equally busy at the booth; so it was evident the host of the Gum Tree Hotel was in for a good day.
A few more wagers were laid, and the civilian element began to plunge a bit on Orme, word having passed that he was an old hand at the game, whereas I was but a novice.
Not only the members of the Reform, but the general public, made heavy wagers for or against Phileas Fogg, who was set down in the betting books as if he were a race horse.
As if by magic; the "Phileas Fogg bonds" again became negotiable, and many new wagers were made.
Softy was in very high spirits, and was trying to make Tiney lay wagers of so many grains of corn, about the distance he could leap.
You would have thought that they had laid wagers with each other, who should venture upon the most difficult and dangerous leaps.
Then they began to make wagers of their own, and there were faint whispers of wrath and astonishment as the dice clicked out and each time the winnings of Pierre doubled.
When all seven were quiet the herald proclaimed that wagers might now be laid on the apes, the survivor of the seven to be the winner.
Although Helvidius was on Greia's side of our local feud, while Annius was on the other, idlers at Reate were laying wagers that Annius would win Greia, considering him most in her favor.
A prize was offered to him if he won and wagers were laid, mostly of ten to one or more on Commodus; he, of course, betting on himself with at least one senator at any odds his taker chose.
There were wagerson such matters as the longevity of friends and prominent people, fertility of female friends, wartime actions, and political matters.
Men of fashion often engaged in wagers and gambling at their clubs and coffee houses.
Wagers and agreements in the nature of puts and refusals relating to prices of stocks or securities are void.
Afterward, in my presence, several persons of the wealthy, slaveholding class, alluded to the subject, some having laid wagers upon the event.
It was characteristic of Bostil that he would give any odds asked on the King in a race; and, furthermore, he would take any end of wagers on other horses.
The fact remained, however, that there were only two wagers against the King, and both were put up by Indians.
I presume you have arranged your wagers to-morrow with your usual prudence.
The second rush and outcry put the crier nearly at his wits’ end to record the wagers that pelted him, and which testified how much confidence the numerous Athenians had in their unproved champion.
The last wagers were recorded on the tablets by nervous styluses.
That same day she dictated an order of council, that whoever should be concerned in any discourse or libel, or in laying wagers relating to the union, should be prosecuted with the utmost rigour of the law.
The guests at the inn looked after him as he walked from the door of that friendly establishment, and some of them, as they saw his resolved aspect, began to quake for the amount of the wagers they had laid upon his non-success.
He won his wagers but never returned to the surface to claim them.
Two or three score of men had come mainly to hear the result of the afternoon's racing and to make their bets up to the very last moment that wagers were accepted.
Great wagers are constantly being made and sometimes enormous bets effected even after the horses have been dispatched by the starter.
Then the argument grew more heated and finally Selwyn had laid several wagersagainst Dandy at a thousand to thirty.
Foster joined him at lunch, and up to four o'clock they amused themselves by making small wagers on the day's racing.
There had been a certain amount of business over the three o'clock race, but sundry heavy wagers had been deferred almost to the last moment.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wagers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
