How To Use Wager In A Sentence

Golfers had wagered a good deal of money on Nick Faldo winning the championship.
The pre-selected wagers will go into straight and exacta pools only.
The epic cricket battle between England and Australia has sparked a deluge of wagers. The Sun
Of course, all returning players are comped for their loyalty in the rewards program where they earn 1 point for every $10 wagered.
This year has seen a great increase in online and telephone betting, which allows people to make wagers 24 hours a day.

Although Mr. Smith didn't fully solo until this last tune, throughout the set his polyrhythmic drumming evoked a movie with four subplots going at once, all of which, I'd be willing to wager, are better than the latest Harry Potter movie, even in 3D. The Sound Way Down in the Underground
The tide, too, which had hitherto favoured us, now turned against us and drove us to the eastward with prodigious rapidity, so that we were in great anxiety for the Wager and the Anna pink, the two sternmost vessels, fearing they would be dashed to pieces against the shore of Staten Land. Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced
In the last two and a half years, 1,463 employees have made wagers with play money (Goobles, as in rubles) on questions like: will Google open a Russia office? will Apple release an Intel-based Mac? how many users will Gmail have at the end of the quarter? 2008 January « TalentedApps
He acknowledged to no one that this ride was supposed payment for an ill-considered wager. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
Delaware can only offer betting on at least three NFL games per wager, called parlay bets. Undefined
I'll wager that when the first-born of Canaan was in the flood-tide of glory, this very gown was worn by one of the most beautiful women in the pentapolis of Philistia. Romance Island
This led some colleagues to keep score, wagering whether, or by how much, the future would outscore the past. Times, Sunday Times
I would wager that when our defence minister made fun of you, Elsie, he was wearing a boring black or blue suit and a sedate tie.
On the far wall hangs "Roofline," a big painting on Mr. Artschwager's preferred rough surface of celotex, a fiberboard material used in residential construction. Feats of Rock, Paint & Clay
The only material difference between grand hazard and chuck-a-luck is in the layout: the grand hazard layout is more complex and provides spaces for wagering on odd or even, high or low, triples (called raffles), and any number the dice may total, from 4 to 17.
On our left, the elegant old dowager Cloister slept in its garden of flowers, under its arching canopy of ancient oaks. DOWNTOWN
There is even a radiogram, one of the pieces which the Dowager Duchess herself is selling: it is of course a rather grand walnut veneered model by the royal jewellers Garrard and Co. Chatsworth House clearout expected to fetch £2.5m
Bill Eadington, director of the Institute for the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming at the University of Nevada-Reno said the term penny slots is a misnomer because most wagers on the devices are much greater. WTOP / Business / Biz Stories
The empress dowager looked up, the tears beginning to course down those flawless cheeks.
This is a friend from Scotland, the dowager Countess of Kirkwell.
That said, his maverick tendencies are becoming almost a trademark of the man, and I'd wager a punt or two that he'll be courting controversy again before we next go to the polls.
The U.S. bettor can make his wagers in the safe knowledge that he is dealing with a good, honest business.
I'd wager that car sharing makes petrol company bosses want to slap their foreheads very hard indeed. Times, Sunday Times
And if anyone was tempted to wager against bond prices, the emboldened bulls were tickled at the opportunity to take their money.
A kinswoman of and chamberer to Queen Kathryn Parr, she was with the queen dowager when she died. Secrets of the Tudor Court
A wager is a fool’s argument.
Most important, it has forced scientists to re-evaluate their methodologies, as even Wager's rebuttal concedes that the nonindependence error Vul discusses can in fact inflate correlations (much of the argument is over how much). SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
Men that run for a wager, (if they intend to _win_ as well as _run_,) do not use to encumber themselves, or carry those things about them that may be a hindrance to them in their running. The Heavenly Footman
Marriage made her Lady Andrew Cavendish, then Marchioness of Hartington, th en Duchess of Devonshire that ' s all the same husband, and I can ' t blame Americans who find British nomenclature taxing; since her husband died six years ago, she has been the Dowager Duchess. Portrait of a Vanishing World
They have been wagered by gamblers like Donna (who won $900 at a casino in Redding, Calif.) and unselfishly given to charities.
She was petite and had a dowager's hump or minor hunchback.
The sale of the Ocala Jai-Alai fronton and off-track wagering facility to a subsidiary of the Ocala Breeders' Sales Co. was completed on Wednesday.
They also understood that the war of ideas had to be fought by engaging in real-world controversies, with stakes wagered on the outcome.
Account wagering would give us more money for purses.
We all know that sort of transaction: the squabbling, and gobbling, and popping of champagne; the smell of musk and lobster-salad; the dowagers chumping away at plates of raised pie; the young lassies nibbling at little titbits, which the dexterous young gentlemen procure. Mrs. Perkins's Ball
His wife, meanwhile, became dresser to their old patroness, the Queen-Dowager, Henrietta-Maria.
At least in the imaginary versions for bass tuba or kettledrum I wager to say that he is right.
They, together with the custody of the young earl, were given to the dowager countess and so remained under Herbert control.
It distinguished the dowager Mrs. Smith from the wife of her eldest son; today the word dowager, imitating the English usage, is frequently employed in fashionable society. Chapter 4. American and English Today. 4. Euphemisms
Tramore's August Racing Festival attracted record attendances of 27,000 over the four days with racegoers wagering over €2m with the bookmakers and on the tote.
She always wagered on an outsider.
But I'll wager that they and everyone else, from epicure to hunger activist, will soon be consulting these volumes as a quick route to erudition.
With untold billions illegally wagered on sport in the US, one might also think that the puritanical aversion that the nation feels towards the marriage of sport and wagering would dissipate.
The sites look a lot like real-money sites, but don't accept wagers.
Without preconditioning, most historians, I wager, would buckle under the strain.
McDonnell a series of suggestions: pari-mutuel wagering; privatizing rest stops; establishing an "infrastructure bank," "changes to the state's revenue sharing program," and a "bipartisan blue ribbon transportation committee...to recommend how best to generate the resources necessary to develop and maintain such a transportation system. RPV Chair Outright Lies About "Democrat Legislators"
Amhuinnsuidhe Castle - in effect a Scots baronial house - was built in 1867 by a Scottish architect, and it was the dowager Countess who encouraged the production of Harris Tweed.
He's the kind of a guy who would put a lampshade on his head and dance the fandango if he thought it would make one person smile, and it takes a similar kind of Texas chutzpah to get up on the stage at the Carlyle, in front of debutantes and dowagers sporting enough jewelry to exceed the gross national product of Madagascar, and sing "Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Jubilant and Jazzy for the Holidays
She was willing to wager that he didn't own the apartment he lived in.
I'll wager she's the stroppiest bit they've seen in a while. Ripping Time
He worried that Paulson would want especially ugly mortgages for the CDOs, like a bettor asking a football owner to bench a star quarterback to improve the odds of his wager against the team. The Volokh Conspiracy » The SEC Split Over Goldman
Volunteering a wager was unprecedented, therefore highly suspicious.
It dreads the prospect of a future where more and more wagering ends up with non-fee paying operators ‘leeching’ off racing.
- Read the comments in a long-ago post I made last January concerning the "freeness" of WSJ. Com and you'll see I wagered a bottle of Rex Goliath wine on a bet with my fellow Brand-Rex blogger, Rex Sorgatz (fimoculous. com), that when the post-Murdoch WSJ. com rolled out, a significant portion of it would come out from behind the pay-wall. Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
Cosens and Innes observed few bowheads south of Wager Bay, where American whalers found high densities of bowheads from 1860 into the 1870s.
Don Quixote made no answer, nor did the horsemen wait for one, but wheeling again with all their followers, they began curvetting round Don Quixote, who, turning to Sancho, said, "These gentlemen have plainly recognised us; I will wager they have read our history, and even that newly printed one by the Aragonese. Don Quixote
No more quiet nights of bridge with dowagers, however elegant.
The pools will include all wagers from North America with an 18% takeout on straight wagers, 21% takeout on exactas, and a 25.75% takeout for trifecta and superfecta wagering.
Dowager went off in her jingling old coach, attended by two faithful and withered old maids of honour, and a little snuffy spindle-shanked gentleman in waiting, in a brown jasey and a green coat covered with orders — of which the star and the grand yellow cordon of the order of St. Michael of Pumpernickel were most conspicuous. Vanity Fair
The most popular forms of gambling were raffles, state lotteries, friendly wagers, casino gambling and office pools.
On the appointed day and time, the dowager's doorbell rang and she walked out onto her porch.
Since the horses in this race are stablemates, their owners have wagered just a dollar on the race.
To prevent profiteering on bad news, the wagers would have been kept small.
I'll hazard a wager: no one will ever turn up with thirty-year-old originals.
Yet one may wager that some new answers may not be long in coming. The Times Literary Supplement
And after all, even supposing that Pascal is wrong; even supposing that making his grand wager he put his money upon the _wrong horse_, does that diminish the tragedy of his position? Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations
He was so preoccupied with the effect he wished to produce, that a practical joke, Blondet, had bet once or twice, and won the wager, that he could nonplus him at any moment by merely looking fixedly at his hair, or his boots, or the tails of his coats. Modeste Mignon
Dowager lady Chia observed that Pao-yü was clad in a deep-red felt fringed overcoat, with woollen lichee-coloured archery-sleeves and with an edging of dark green glossy satin, embroidered with gold rings. Hung Lou Meng
This year, so-called macro managers have been forced to make short-term wagers because the longer-term thematic trades haven't worked for them, Mark Enman, head of the global-trading team within hedge-fund research at Man Investments in New York, said in a telephone interview. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
I would wager that Team B was the reason that, when I was in nuclear forces, we were told that though the number of warheads on a Soviet missile was classified, it was probably 10 to 12 forty megaton warheads. Matthew Yglesias » Cold War Hawks and the Soviet Economy
I'll wager these sort of items will not be bought by the kind of man who expects a savoury after his treacle pudding. Times, Sunday Times
Death waved a veiny arm out my kitchen window, and a dowager squirrel fell from the crepe myrtle tree into the birdbath. Death Pays a Visit But Fucks Up
An even more striking case was that of the dowager Countess of Oxford, a devoted Ricardian who orchestrated opposition to Henry IV in Essex in 1403-4.
That is, bettors get their wagers back but don't actually generate anything as crass as earnings.
In addition to this type of bet, win, place, show, exacta, trifecta, and superfecta wagering will be offered on each of the 12 races on the card, along with rolling pick three and daily double wagers.
Track officials indicated that profits are slipping because wagering has leveled off while taxes and expenses have increased.
In North America, it will be distributed via the Australian Racing Network to racetracks, off-track betting sites, and internet wagering sites.
Consider different kinds of wagers in different pools.
I'd wager that if most of America had known the first finalist wouldn't even be selected until the second half, very few would have tuned in for the fluff.
York shops took scores of smaller wagers at prices ranging right down to 10 / 1.
There have been various wagers on certain candidates since the Bishop announced his retirement.
The sport has long been associated with illegal wagers and unsavoury characters.
She had made the wager on an online slot machine at a gaming site. The Sun
Conversely, Hawaiians were traditionally the biggest gamblers of Polynesia - going so far as to wager their own lives in surfing competitions - and they made fermented drinks of kava roots.
A year ago the necessities of Alfred Waltham's affairs had led to a change; he and his wife and their two children, together with Mrs. Waltham the dowager, removed to what the auctioneers call a commodious residence on the outskirts of Belwick. Demos
I guess a dowager is actually always a woman who inherits property from her dead husband. Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: Today's Vocabulary Lesson.
If you're a cop and your uncle is a con artist, it's safe to wager that your big family functions are going to be, well, at least a little awkward if you both show up. Tonight's TV Hot List: Friday, Oct. 22, 2010
The bill also calls for returning uncashed winning tickets to purses, and authorizes account wagering.
Volunteering a wager was unprecedented, therefore highly suspicious.
If you're wagering your hard-earned six bucks on an Uzbeki Pinot from a wine bin don't expect the earth to move when you drink it.
No one can tell you where, or how, to make the best wagers, or what pools to enter!
And Dutrow, known in horse racing for his bravado, is doing well enough as a trainer that he's planning to wager $100,000 on Big Brown, a 3-1 favorite. Behind a Derby favorite, tragedy and redemption
During wagering on Wednesday and Thursday at Santa Anita, the pick six handle total was larger than it had been on the same days last year.
While a slave could be raffled off or wagered at the master's whim, freeing a slave was fraught with legal obstacles.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Wagering across the country on races run through the first two full weeks at Saratoga is nearly identical with 2009 figures according to statistics released today by the New York Racing Association, Inc. Albany Business News - Local Albany News | Business Review of Albany
A literary dowager I know was immediately enthusiastic: ‘Oh, I would love that.’
I will wager your tetrameter is the semisextarius. [ The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1
The Pascalian principle that wagering on a notional truth is as good as treating it as a certainty holds for the determination we have at Cannes to outstare a basilisk movie, or to die in the attempt. GreenCine Daily: Weekend fests and events.
But last summer he was caught up in a betting controversy after it emerged he put wagers on football matches. The Sun
He did, truth to be told, bet against Liverpool but it was a wager we were happy to lose.
The only catch in that is that Sonia might be there as the dowager baronetess, in which case she would insist on playing all the leading rôles. Final Curtain
Some one up there must have wagered a few bob on them for another Grand Slam.
Sign that the Super Bowl has jumped the shark, then turned back and filleted and grilled it: Art nerds are wagering valuable works on it. Super Bowl XLV oddities: Art guys talk smack, a lucky white blood cell
Officials said they expected other racetracks and off-track wagering operators to adopt the new standard policies.
The other students looked down their noses at them, especially the ones who came from so-called blue-blooded families, families who were able to trace their lineage back to the Pilgrims, families like Grandma Olivia’s, Daddy’s mother, who ruled over us like a dowager queen. Music in The Night
Mrs. Booker T. Washington, but they were women that were more like what you would call the dowager or the ladylike type of thing. Oral History Interview with Modjeska Simkins, November 15, 1974. Interview G-0056-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Wagering on horses in Saratoga Springs started in the mid-19th century, and the racecourse is home to one of the oldest thoroughbred stakes in the country: the Travers, first run in 1864. Off to the Races
The house which the worthy goldsmith inhabited, had in former times belonged to a powerful and wealthy baronial family, which, during the reign of Henry VIII., terminated in a dowager lady, very wealthy, very devout, and most unalienably attached to the Catholic faith. The Fortunes of Nigel
I'll wager she can't tell the difference between a Klieg light and sunlight.
Do this at the Opera House and the bourgeois in the front row would be shifting uncomfortably in their seats I'll wager.
As duke, Theseus might easily hasten on the day of marriage if he wished, and indeed he chafes at the waning 'old moon 'that' lingers my desires/Like to a stepdame or a dowager/Long withering out a young man's revenue ', and yet he chooses to abide by the self-imposed delay. Shakespeare
You won't find better goods anywhere else, I'll wager.
When he appeared in Cork in 1491 he was taken up by a number of people who wished to embarrass Henry, including the earls of Kildare and Desmond, Charles VIII of France, and Margaret, dowager duchess of Burgundy.
She whispered in the dowager's ear and went off to find the ladies withdrawing room.
March Madness is all about the numbers: 65 teams, 19 days, 14 venues, millions wagered on office sweepstakes.
The greatest dining establishments age gracefully, of course, like rich dowagers, without a seeming care in the world.
Voters in rural Hamilton County, Florida, on the Georgia border, approved a measure on Tuesday that will allow pari-mutuel wagering at a jai alai fronton and off-track betting facility in Jasper that will open within two years.
She wagered ten dollars on that black horse.
VoiceBet allows bettors to use either voice commands from any telephone or key commands on touch-tone phones to place wagers, check account balances, or review bets.
I'd wager that car sharing makes petrol company bosses want to slap their foreheads very hard indeed. Times, Sunday Times
But one big vendor, GE Capital, is downsizing its wager by taking back some of the planes it has leased to both carriers.
This led some colleagues to keep score, wagering whether, or by how much, the future would outscore the past. Times, Sunday Times
Last year, it made a wager on the Kuwaiti dinar, which became the first currency in the region to abandon a strict peg to the dollar.
The firm is betting on what it calls the industry trend away from track-based betting toward home-based wagering.
An unnamed bettor placed two wagers at the MGM sports book in Las Vegas back in September, and thanks to the Cardinals' World Series Win, now holds winning tickets totaling $375,000. Anonymous Bettor Wins $375,000 From Cardinals World Series (VIDEO)
Louis' only son, the dauphin, wasn't a promising prospect, and Louis' other four children with an earlier mistress had to wait until the dowager Queen's death before he could force their legitimacy through the French parlement.
This was commissioned by an Anglo-Irish peeress, the dowager Countess of Sandwich, in circumstances to be explained.
I will wager your tetrameter is the semisextarius. The Clouds
As greyhound racing becomes more popular races are being simulcast to off-track wagering sites, and to other racetracks, even horse tracks.
I'll wager $20 that the horse wins.
A parlay is a single wager that links together several individual bets. Archive 2009-04-01
Companies usually make small wagers on the future rather than betting the farm. Times, Sunday Times
Have them wager the amount of points they would like. Christianity Today
Surprised, the dowager duchess sputtered for a few times before exclaiming, ‘Raphael!’
The widow of a marquis, whom you should by rights call a marchioness dowager (but we overlook it -- you meant no harm) is entitled (in any hotel that we know or frequent) to go in to dinner whenever, and as often, as she likes. Frenzied Fiction
Two maids carried baskets of laundry, and some young urchins played a game with old dice, wagering stones.
The epic cricket battle between England and Australia has sparked a deluge of wagers. The Sun
The Illinois Racing Board has temporarily has suspended all live and simulcasting betting on some multirace wagers, including pick four and pick six bets.
Born on Christmas Day, 1901, Alice, the dowager Duchess of Gloucester, lived to see 20 prime ministers and five monarchs.
At the greyhound track bettors usually have as many as 12-14 wagering pools to select from.
What's more, I'd wager that there are even more people who simply rip DVDs they've rented from the local video store - but I see no mention of that form of piracy in the article.
He had wagered that she would be a Teutonic heavyweight with callosities growing on her forehead.
It's a fascinating read, and reveals the extent to which rakish elements amongst landowners and the aristocracy staked huge wagers on the outcome of sporting events.
At the party this dowager duchess looked at me and whispered loudly, ‘It's disgusting!
At the feast which follows the three bridegrooms wager on whose wife is the most docile and submissive.
Since then, I've enjoyed NFL games on the tube and in the stands; I've tailgated, wagered amongst friends, thrilled at the unpredictability of the annual playoff chase… and been utterly annoyed by replay.
I am ready to wager a package of cigarettes that he will come.
To prove his ideas are worthy, Fogg wagers he can circumnavigate the world in 80 days.
Her scratch from the Great State Challenge Distaff also left just four horses in the race, which canceled both show and trifecta wagering in that race and put Sam Houston in danger of taking another hit with a minus place pool.
Betting the same amount on all of your wagers is probably the best way to start.
But despite taking $25,000 bets before, she will be content with laying a more modest wager.
This is no time for political reporters to be holding their noses like dowager duchesses aghast at the vulgarity of the masses.
I met a bodach on the road yesterday, and he said, "Teigue, tell me how many pennies are in your bag; I will wager three pennies that there are not twenty pennies in your bag; let me put in my hand and count them. The Unicorn from the Stars and Other Plays
A plaque marks the spot where the wager was made.
From youthful but elegant matrons to eagle-eyed dowagers, they were assured, secure in their social positions. A RAKE'S VOW
I fully admit that I just now had to look up the word "dowager" in the dictionary, and he's sort of correct. Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: Today's Vocabulary Lesson.
Howard added that all revenue, including revenue coming in from off-track wagers, would be contributed toward the relief effort.
They laied wagers with suche as with one thruste of a sworde, woulde paunche or bowell a man in the middest, or with one blowe of a sworde most readily and moste deliverly cut of his heade, or that woulde best perce his entralls at one stroke. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II.
Instant Racing is wagering processed through a standard totalizator.
I don’t know that I agree with whosis that belief itself has costs, but I certainly disagree with you tbat Pascal’s wager can be used to justify anything. What Sort of God Would Allow This?
He also wants to cash in on a bet wagered with the British players.
I'd wager that car sharing makes petrol company bosses want to slap their foreheads very hard indeed. Times, Sunday Times
But last summer he was caught up in a betting controversy after it emerged he put wagers on football matches. The Sun
Victoria's last publication was the Officium defunctorum, written, he states, for the exequies of the dowager empress in 1603, and including his famous six-voice music for the Requiem Mass.
She had discovered that his greatness was at best a kind of lap-dog or tame cat distinction; that he was better known as the caressed and petted adviser of patrician dowagers and effeminate old gentlemen, of fashionable beauties and hysterical matrons, than as one of the lights of his profession. The Golden Calf
That's the work we're chattin 'about, and a job it's goin' t 'be, I'd wager. A Corridor in the Asylum
In the front pew were the dowager duchess, the eighth Duke of Rivenston, the Duke of Stafford and the Lady Lorraine.
But, as I sit down today to write this article, a business executive with an industrial firm on the Eastern seaboard is telephoning a bookmaker to place a fifty-dollar bet on a horse race; a factory worker in a Midwestern town is standing at a lunch counter filling out a basketball parlay card on which he will wager two dollars; a housewife in a West Coast suburb is handing a dime to a policy writer who operates a newsstand as a front near the supermarket where she shops. The Baleful Influence of Gambling
I met a bodach on the road yesterday, and he said, Teigue, tell me how many pennies are in your bag; I will wager three pennies that there are not twenty pennies in your bag; let me put in my hand and count them. The Hour-Glass
Nevada casinos won almost $6.9 million on this year's as bettors wagered $82.7 million on the title gambling regulators said Tuesday. WN.com - Articles related to Singapore opens first casino
Although usually used for games, including card games with wagering, playing cards are also used for divination (so called cartomancy), illusions and tricks, and even for building unsteady houses of cards. THE HISTORY OF PLAYING CARDS
Seven years ago I wouldn't have wagered a bet on him still playing rugby at the age of 30.
Lady Gwyneth grinned, looking for all the world like an excited child unleashed without adult supervision in a toy shop, instead of a dignified dowager of the ton with three grown-up grandchildren.
Bettors in Canada were precluded from wagering into U.S. pools under previous regulations.
I quite enjoyed this video compilation of the Dowager Countess’ best burns from all six seasons of Downton Abbey.
Betfair, the internet betting exchange, has revolutionised the world of gambling by allowing punters to wager on horses not winning.
At that time Nimmyo's mother, Dowager Empress Saga, took the tonsure and entered a temple.
And all because the horse on which they had wagered all of two quid each-way had fallen at the first flight of hurdles, accidentally.
With difficulty, they squeezed their way up to the large drawing room to be announced; the buzz of many conversations lulling for a moment as the guests took in the dowager's rare public appearance.
That's right: As Comic Riffs "wagered" Monday, it's the Human Torch whose life has been extinguished -- at least for the foreseeable future, given the superpowers of comic resurrection -- by writer Jonathan Hickman and artist Steve Epting, Marvel Entertainment tells Comic Riffs. Here be spoilers: The FANTASTIC FOUR member who dies today is... [UPDATED]
Continuing to show a preference for out-of-state racing, Maryland horseplayers continued the trend of abandoning the local product in favor of simulcast wagering.
Young men were stripped to the waist and fighting to the clink of wagered coins and shouts of encouragement.
I'd wager if you did this, you list the super welters on down as being far superior then those above, at least in terms of providing the fans the best experience.
For most men - 'til by losing rendered sager, will back their own opinions by wager," - Lord Byron. Swine Flu-- Normal or Malignant?
She wagered ten dollars on that black horse.
She put a cash wager of £50 on the biggest horse race of the year.
But before she had time to decide which of the unlively men, loitering round the carriages or helping stout old dowagers up slim iron ladders, was sufficiently lugubrious to be identified as the martyr of the ballot-box, she was absorbed by a tall, masterful figure, whose face had the radiance of easeful success, and whose hands were clapping at some nuance of style which had escaped the palms of the great circular mob. The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes
Stipes wagered all his money on an unknown horse.
Nobody was allowed to eat in the Empress Dowager's presence.
Dowager, nor shall any member of the clans of the imperial consorts be appointed regents [during the minority of young emperors], nor shall they be given enfeoffment without due merit. Empresses and Consorts
In the land of the shining empire, in a small province north of the city of Messaline and beyond the great salt desert, a princess with a tip-tilted nose lived with her mother, Hoelun Khatun, the Dowager Queen. PodCastle » PodCastle 96: Love Among the Talus
Throw in all the illegal bets made with bookies and on private wagers, and it adds up to an estimated $4.5 billion laid out on the annual round robin.
The takeout rate will be lowered from 19% to 16% on daily double, exacta, trifecta, superfecta, and pick three wagering.
You won't find better goods anywhere else, I'll wager.
The dowager countess will be there and you can bet no one will rest until everything is perfect.
While the Woodbine Entertainment Group remains committed to providing horseplayers the opportunity to wager directly into United States pools, officials say the prospective change will likely not take place until deep into 2005.
United States horseplayers wagered $2,566,213 on Dubai World Cup day in 2005, and $3,398,735 on the full Dubai Racing Carnival.
Vertical and horizontal wagers such as trifectas, superfectas, pick threes, and pick fours should be in $1 pay-offs.
By the time she married Prince Albert I of Monaco in 1889, she was a wealthy woman in her own right who carried an important French title as the dowager duchess of Richelieu.
In the many poolrooms then existing throughout the country and especially in the larger cities great sums of money were wagered on the result of the various contests, and as a result "crookedness" on the part of various players was being charged, and though these charges were vigorously denied by those interested the denials carried but little weight in view of the in-and-out performances of the teams in which they were engaged. A Ball Player's Career Being the Personal Experiences and Reminiscensces of Adrian C. Anson

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