1 The wager was accepted, but not one of those who bet believed that she would do it.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V—DISTRACTIONS 2 I will wager that you are talking politics.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN 3 We have made a wager--a wager which could not have been foreseen, and of which I defy anyone to divine the true cause.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 46 THE BASTION SAINT-GERVAIS 4 Gentlemen," said he, "we have been here an hour, and our wager is won; but we will be fair players.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 47 THE COUNCIL OF THE MUSKETEERS 5 de Busigny was the first to come and shake Athos by the hand, and acknowledge that the wager was lost.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 47 THE COUNCIL OF THE MUSKETEERS 6 You didn't have your mind on your business and I'll wager you weren't thinking about our Cause or the hospital.
7 I'll wager even dowagers like Mrs. Merriwether.
8 I'll wager you didn't know then how many pennies were in a dollar.
9 They were blazing as if upon a wager, giving and taking tremendous blows.
10 I'll wager he learns more about you than you about him.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES 11 At the hour when the suspected man was looked for, the whelp was at the station; offering to wager that he had made off before the p.
12 I'll wager that the black dress shows a corresponding mark to this.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE 13 I would lay any wager it is about Miss Williams.
14 She would clasp me round the neck and laugh, the while, as if I did it for a wager.
15 He laid a wager he would tame Medeah in the space of six months.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 62. Ghosts.