102 examples of wagered in sentences

I could not understand their tongue, but I fancy that they wagered among themselves on the issue, if, indeed, that was in doubt, or, at any rate, on the time before I should fall.

It might be that the big fellow had regained his nerve and was stealing up for a second attempt; but Donnegan would have wagered his soul that George Washington Green had his first and last lesson and that he would rather play with bare lightning than ever again cross his new master.

At another time she wagered that she would consume ten million sesterces at one meal, and won her wager by dissolving in vinegar a pearl of unknown value.

So 'tis my very life wagered on this being the place named.

The soldiers wagered.

For about one minute Keturah would not have wagered her fortune on the woman.

You have wagered to bring me here to supper, and I supposed you were taking me to sup with one of my own friends.

An anonymous letter had made an appointment for Louis with the lady of the violets at the masked ball, and from this person he was informed again not only of Emilie's infidelity, but further, that M. de Château-Renard had wagered he would bring her to supper at D's.

In order to secure privacy for a conference, they decided to go and breakfast in a bastion near the enemy's lines, and wagered with some officers they would stay there an hour.

They passed out of sight behind the trees of an island, one close upon the other, and I do not know how the controversy ended; but I would have wagered a trifle on the old white-head, the bird of Washington.

Toward evening a vast crowd assembled at the place appointed to witness the hostile meeting; and so great was the popular recklessness as to affairs of the sort, that numerous and considerable sums were wagered on the result.

Incredibly large sums, in proportion to the means of the gamblers, are wagered on the result.

One night Sir Condy was drinking with the excise-man and the gauger, and wagered that he could do it.

I would have wagered that some one had broken into the storeroom containing the mysterious cargo.

The detective found two bet markers who remembered distinctly that, on several occasions, a handsome woman, answering to the description of Mrs. Wilmott, had wagered five or ten louis on Martinez and had shown a decided admiration for his remarkable skill with the cue.

He went back over his reasoning, but it held goodso good that he would have wagered his own clothes that he was right.

Jobe Dean and Gus Abington who came to Trenton from their home near La Grange, Tennessee were responsible for the popularity of these sports in Phillips County and it was they who promoted the most spectacular of these sporting events and in which large sums of money were wagered on the horses and the game cocks.

You often wagered a pot of ale on my play; you used to say I'd make the best player of fives, and the best singer of a song, within ten miles round the meer.

Madison had an ice house filled with ice, and a skeptical overseer wagered a turkey against a mint julep that by the fourth of July the ice would all have disappeared.

Ranchers, fat with the profits of a good sale of cattle, had wagered the whole amount of it in a single evening.

For nine months the struggle was wagered fiercely in the States, but the Federalists prevailed.

I'll show these greasers what a gringo can do!" He spoke in Spanish, to show his contempt of their opinion of him, and he curled his lip at the jibes they began to fling down at him; the jibes and the tauntsand vague threats as well, when those who had wagered much upon the duelo began to reckon mentally their losings.

Outsiders wagered money and livestock to a large amount.

"I would have wagered a good deal that Frank was not within gun-shot.

Then a sportive passenger wagered a sovereign to a shilling that he would miss it.

102 examples of  wagered  in sentences