"I got down a little bet myself, this morning, agin his Lady Mary.

Aye bet Aye have good tam dis trip.

The complicated bets had large payoffs and correspondingly smaller chances of winning.

I have got so I bet on a sure thing, and when a fellow bets on a sure thing he is bound to lose.

He finds, on the contrary, that he is wanted merely to decide a foolish bet; and he is treated with the grossest insolence and contempt.

'What is this insane bet of yours then?' "'I have bet,' I answered, 'that I will recite a chapter of the Koran to the first gentleman whom I should meet in the street.'

He is not one whit better than if he had made his money by a lucky bet on a racehorse.

The idea of sacrificing such a handsome beard for a mere bet!

They raised three hundred dollars and bet it on their horse, while of course, I backed Tall Bull with an equal amount, and in addition took numerous side bets.

An odd bet it was.

If it followed the prior bet, it would have followed another, in which I was gainer, equally the same.

A great deal of money among the richer of them changed hands upon the result of bets, often the most frivolous, if not altogether ridiculous.

The others, for most part, merely called his tentative bets with wary respect.

I've a tremenjous bet on wi' this yin'indicating Macgregor'every dashed penny

I think fear was at the heart of a good deal of those atrocious Bets by which the German troops stained the honour of their race in the first phases of the war.

It appears that the night before making Plymouth Sound he made a bet in the wardrooma bet of fifty poundsthat he'd marry the first woman he met ashore.