You have lost your wager.

Wager says that A. made a bet with B. that he could cut a dime in two at one stroke of his pen-knife, C. to hold the stakes.

I'll wager that fellow who was looking in at us could find it in a minute.

" "No, I'll wager you'll be sorry to leave when I come for you.

"Mr. Prettyman and lord Martin have ordered two large rounds of beef to be set upon the table at supper, and they mean to lay about them for a wager.

"Oh, it's nothing; only a silly wager," he said.

Having been a very famous swimmer at Eton, the Honorable Frederick undertook while at the Cowes to swim a certain considerable distance for a wager.

"I'll lay you a wager, Morgan," said he to the first mate, "that the agent will speak of Sharkey in the first hundred words that pass his lips.

"I'll pay that dollar, Captain Scarrow, with the lightest heart that ever I paid a wager yet.

In the prior year the spirit of wager had seized a great number of them with the harpy talons of the demon of gambling, giving rise to consequences prejudicial to their morals, as well as to their studies.

While I ask your pardon, allow me to add that the wager, foolish or not, is to be decided by your answeryes or no.

Your friend, who called for me, told me that you were a prisoner, and that your imprisonment was the consequence of the wager which it fell to me to decide.

He said he was going around the globe on a wager of a fortune.

He lived at the Annexe, and told me that he was not really a boot-cleaner, but was going around the world on a wager of twenty thousand dollars, "without a cent."

Now are his ideas in a hot ferment; and, if the truth could be known, I would wager a handsome venture, that the sail in sight is, by some mysterious process, magnified to six in his fertile fancy.

I would wager you that we shall find he is in Brighton when we get in.

* Morris set Mr. Taynton down at his office, and by way of settling their wager at once, waited at the door, while the other went upstairs to see if his partner was there.

Further, this ill-tempered Gentile, instead of keeping decently remote from Salt Lake City, as General Johnston had done, had marched his troops into the very stronghold of Zion, despite all threats of armed opposition, and in the face of a specific offer from one Prophet, Seer, and Revelator to wager him a large sum of money that his forces would never cross the River Jordan.

SELBY That wager lost, I should be rich indeed Rich in my rescued Katerich in my honour, Which now was bankrupt.

Sister, I accept Your merry wager, with an aching heart

You'll know your wager wonthen break upon us, As if by chance.

Your wager won makes me a happy man, Though poorer, Heav'n knows, by a thousand pounds.

Below them the troubled wailing continued: "Crammed and squeezed, so entombed (on some wager I hazard), in spite of scared squawking and mutter, after the fashion that lean-faced Rajah dealt with trapped heroes, once, in Calcutta.

The kid wins a wager.

Finally the giant sheepman, despite his personal wager, was elected unanimously.