Betting

Examples

• An examination of his betting-book shows that bets to the amount of five thousand pounds had been registered by him against the favorite. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• It was here that poor Fred Vincy had made part of his memorable debt, having lost money in betting, and been obliged to borrow of that gay companion. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Lydgate, by betting on his own strokes, had won sixteen pounds; but young Hawley's arrival had changed the poise of things. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• How is the betting? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• He attended to his game commonly and didn't much meddle with the conversation, except when it was about horses and betting. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Up to the time of the catastrophe he was the first favorite for the Wessex Cup, the betting being three to one on him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• As Desborough, their horse, was second in the betting, they had an interest in the disappearance of the favorite. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• You are great people for betting in Yorkshire, are you not? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• They do so because something within them is satisfied by betting or drinking. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The grand-stands were old and made of wood and the betting booths were under the stands and in a row out near the stables. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.

Typist: Wolfgang