(A friendly match, and no bets on either side.)

Ordinarily officers of the U.S. Navy do not scuttle on deck like a crowd of curious schoolgirls, but all hands had been keyed to a high pitch over the elusive light, and the bet with Edwards now served as an excuse for the betrayal of unusual eagerness.

" "I'll make you a bet of twenty-five per cent.

Besides being spavined and having three of his hoofs injured by sand-crack, he had poll-evil, fistulas, malanders, ring-bone, capped hock, curb, splint, and several other maladies which made him a very suitable horse for the general public to bet against.

"Would you like to make a bet for us with King Cais?"

Betting at the Board of Trade is my proper job and I've got to be satisfied with a week at a fishing camp now and then.

"I just made the bet by way of talk.

So that the admiring public wouldn't overlook any bets in the costume line I enlivened my discourse with these illustrated song gestures, every move a picture.

When Rokeby came out, contemporaneously with the Giaour, the undergraduates of Oxford and Cambridge ran races to catch the first copies, and laid bets as to which of the rivals would win.

I'll bet ye a packet o' fags she greets.'

I bet from the way Suss hollered at you to-day about her extra milk you're upset yet.

Like my oldest and one of my dearest friends on the turf, Lord Falmouth, I never made a bet after the time I speak of.

And there had been a little bet about it between her and her brother, who entertained an idea that Mr. Prosper was an obstinate man.

" Then I thought of the money pa had given me to bet, and I offered to bet it all, and a negro produced funds and took all my bets like a bookmaker.

With certain members of the hunt he books bets to a high amount; his face is not unknown at Tattersall's or at the race meetings.

So that, with his fair behest,[70] And with his glosing, at lest She granted him to don his will, When he will, loud and still. "Leman," he said, "thou must let be The abbesse thy neice, and go with me; For ich am riche, of swich powere, Ye finde bet than thou hast here.

At last he has said: 'Very good, if Cais comes to me, and wishes to be released from the contract, I will annul it; but do not let any Arab think that I abandon the bet through fear of Antar.'

Has he given any orders yet?" No orders had been given, but the betting amongst the Blue Marines was about ninety-seven to one in favor of their moving.

"Well, I had a bet up, y'see.

The truth is, that we have a bet among us as to whether you are the mother of this fine boy.

We'll see if we can drag another bet out of the bar-keep if the roan doesn't hurt him too bad.