"You bet" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... That air lost critter of yourn was a Comanche scout's, you bet; and, bein' a scout, he couldn't have done nothin' else, 'cause it might hev spilt their entire calculation. You'll hev a chance ter see him ...
— The Young Trail Hunters • Samuel Woodworth Cozzens
... was saying, those old fellows would bury their hoards in some cave or other, and then go off—and get hanged. Their ghosts perhaps came back. The darkies have lots of ghost-tales about them. But their money is still here, lots of it, you bet ...
— Pieces of Eight • Richard le Gallienne
... "Well, miss, you bet your money on the right hoss that time," interrupted Bill. "If I hain't a friend of his'n, I'd like to know where you'll find one; though I did kick up like a cussed ole mule when he knocked the bottle out of my hand. Like enough if he ...
— Barriers Burned Away • E. P. Roe
... approached and asked for their votes would say: "Do you ladies really want to vote? Well, if you do, we'll sure help all we can." Many old-timers said: "What would our State have been without the women? You bet you can count on us." The campaigners spoke in moving picture theaters, from wagons and automobiles and wherever they could obtain an audience however small. There were no rebuffs but some of the Southerners would ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI • Various
... "You bet I'm the boss," snarled Wallace. "Now keep that loud-mouthed punk quiet, or I'll wipe up the deck with him and send the ...
— On the Trail of the Space Pirates • Carey Rockwell
... "You bet there won't. When a master begs men to own up, it means that he's up the spout. It's much more fun catching a fellow red-handed. And, after all, you two are the last people anyone would ...
— The Loom of Youth • Alec Waugh
... sech surmises is reedic'lous. No angel is goin' to visit Arizona for obvious reasons. An' ag'in, no angel's doo to go skally-hootin' about after steers an' stampeedin' 'em over brinks. It's ag'in reason; you bet! That blazin' wraith, that a-way, is a shore-enough demon! An' as for me, personal, I wouldn't cut his trail for a ...
— Wolfville Nights • Alfred Lewis
... "You bet it's too bad," Hal had replied; "but we're still in Europe, and you never can tell what will happen. We may have to play a part in the affair whether we want to or not," and here the conversation had ended, although ...
— The boy Allies at Liege • Clair W. Hayes
... "You bet he does! He tol' me at noon today he wished he could find something that would help bring some money in. His mother's sick," he repeated, "an' Jakey don' ...
— Mr. Wicker's Window • Carley Dawson
... "You bet it ain't!" declared the expert Rachel. "My mother was working on shirts for a straight ten months before I ...
— The Long Day - The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself • Dorothy Richardson
... a single man's job, and I reckon I can have it when he goes—as he will. Then in the month we have scouted free of Whitelys, we have dry washed enough dust to put you on velvet till things come our way. Say, what will you bet that a month of comfort around Nogales won't make you hungry ...
— The Treasure Trail - A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine • Marah Ellis Ryan
... lad. "They had to talk that way. That comes of being really grown up. Right down in their hearts you bet Nelse Haley and Frank Bowman are only sorry they can't go down there themselves ...
— The Mission of Janice Day • Helen Beecher Long
... I don't wipe that sneer off your face and scrub the walls with it. And you'd better not crowd your luck, because all I need right now is an invitation." He stood up, towering over the dark-haired Blue Doctor. "You bet I'm satisfied. And if you got a black mark along with the rest of us, you earned it all ...
— Star Surgeon • Alan Nourse
... claps his on his revolver, and I went under a bunk. There was going to be trouble; but that monstrous Holmes rose up, wobbling his double chins, and says he, 'Order, gentlemen; the first man that draws I'll lay down on him and smother him!' All quiet on the Potomac, you bet! ...
— Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete - The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens • Albert Bigelow Paine
... the sore-head, now?" Laughing Bill murmured. "You got a hundred-per-cent. grouch, but if the old medicine-man says he'll put you in right, you bet your string of beads he'll do it. He's got a gift for helpin' down-and-outers. You got class, Kid; you certainly rhinestone this whole bunch of red men. Why, you belong in French heels and a boodwar cap; that's how I ...
— Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories • Rex Beach
... "You bet we would," returned Leonard; and he was quite sincere in his boast, as we know from ...
— Driven From Home - Carl Crawford's Experience • Horatio Alger
... "You bet," said the skipper; "and what's more, I'll help you to take the shine out of Pita. I'll fix the doors and windows for you myself," and he winked slily at the teacher's daughter, who returned it as promptly as any Christian maiden, knowing that Nerida wasn't on board, and that she ...
— Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories - 1898 • Louis Becke
... "She does, you bet!" Hamar went on. "And I see no reason if she likes me, why we couldn't get engaged. I would do the thing handsomely as far as money goes. ...
— The Sorcery Club • Elliott O'Donnell
... "You bet your life that's right," said the big man with the gun, and from all parts of the crowd came ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. • Various
... be a man like Pa, and have a wife And kids to boss around, you bet they'll have an easy life. We won't be at them all the time, the way they keep at me, And kick about a little dirt that no one else can see. And every night at supper time as soon as he appears, We will not chase our boy away to wash his ...
— The Path to Home • Edgar A. Guest
... "You bet!" was the reply. "Extinguish the flicker, and wait for the general war-dance. It will take place in a very ...
— Frank Merriwell's Chums • Burt L. Standish
... "No, you bet it is n't! But it's good enough for me!" Then with a touch of sarcasm in his tone, "I suppose a certain kind of collar and tie are necessary for a ...
— Skinner's Dress Suit • Henry Irving Dodge
... "You bet I would-I mean I certainly would," answered Ben, correcting his phraseology, as he remembered that he was addressing a young lady, and not ...
— The Young Explorer • Horatio Alger
... "You bet I am," said Bill, swelling up his chest. "I talked mother over and she even got enthusiastic before I got through. Father was all right as ...
— Bob Hunt in Canada • George W. Orton
... don't know anything about women. You do just as I say—do you understand?—and don't interfere with your own wrong-headed opinions of what other people will think, and I'll take the risks of Mrs. Blandford giving me good advice. Your wife has got a heap more sense on these subjects than you have, you bet. You just tell her that I want to marry the girl and want her to help me—that I mean business, this time—and you'll see how quick she'll come down. That's all I want of you. Will you or ...
— The Argonauts of North Liberty • Bret Harte
... "You bet!" said the other, grinning sociably. "I never seen sech dumb hotness." He sprawled out luxuriously on the ground. "Gee, yes! An' I hope we don't have no more fightin' till ...
— The Red Badge of Courage - An Episode of the American Civil War • Stephen Crane
... "You bet I have!" McHale interjected. "You tried to plug Oscar. I seen you cut down on him at about ten feet—and miss. Looks like you ain't got the nerve to hit anything that's comin' for you. You sorter confines your slaughter to ...
— Desert Conquest - or, Precious Waters • A. M. Chisholm
... should think it was! But we picked the men up and crossed the bridge all right... The shells were falling on every side of us. ... I was pretty scared, you bet... It's a bit too thick, ...
— The Soul of the War • Philip Gibbs
... drawer: "It's always a man's doing. You bet they'll find that some fellow had her on a string. What idiots ...
— Athalie • Robert W. Chambers
... if I do," replied Simoun, advancing while he brushed the chalk from his hands. "What will you bet?" ...
— The Reign of Greed - Complete English Version of 'El Filibusterismo' • Jose Rizal
... the boat that was to take 'em out to the vessel late at night. Why did he wait fur dark to be druv down there? You bet, he was makin' his flittin' as silent as possible. He'd prob'ly squared it with a skipper to take 'im aboard on the dead quiet. That's why there ain't much use our knowin' what vessels sailed about that time. ...
— The Mystery of Murray Davenport - A Story of New York at the Present Day • Robert Neilson Stephens
... turned Methodist—he said he felt a call, He stumped the country preachin' and you bet he filled the hall, ...
— Songs Of The Road • Arthur Conan Doyle
... horse-trading. Most men who do so go to the dogs next. People would wonder far and wide. You must choose a respectable life. I know that the love of horses runs through every Yorkshireman's heart. I love them myself. I love them too well to bet on them. My horse is my fellow-creature, and my friend. Would you bet on your friend, and run him blind for a ...
— The Measure of a Man • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
... yere, Stutter, on the dump, and don't yer let one o' them measly sneaks put nary foot on our claim, if yer have ter blow 'em plumb ter hell. You an' Mike kin tend ter thet all right, an' you bet I 'm goin' ter have some news fer yer when I git home, ...
— Beth Norvell - A Romance of the West • Randall Parrish
... trail, where it runs through the Cherokee Strip. I worked one year in that northern country—lots of Texas boys there too. It was just about the time they began to stock that country with Texas steers, and we rode lines to keep our cattle on their range. You bet, there was riding to do in that country then. The first few months that these Southern steers are turned loose on a new range, Lord! but they do love to drift against a breeze. In any kind of a rain-storm, they'll travel ...
— The Outlet • Andy Adams
... Mary had a little lamb, Its fleece was black as jet, In the little old log cabin in the lane; And everywhere that Mary went, The lamb went too, you bet. In the little old ...
— A Son of the Middle Border • Hamlin Garland
... "You bet they didn't, Bessie! It was just the hardest thing they could have done. You see, the reason they were so mean to us is that they are awfully proud, and they think they're ...
— The Camp Fire Girls on the March - Bessie King's Test of Friendship • Jane L. Stewart
... "You bet I would!" The district attorney showed his delight. "I was just going to ask if I might do so. There's nothing for me in Tarrytown to-day and this ...
— The Film Mystery • Arthur B. Reeve
... "You bet I could," he said positively. Turning to Virginia, he went on: "And if you married Mr. Stafford and he gave me a chance, which as his brother-in-law he certainly would—well, if I ever got a flying start I'd show 'em a few things. I've got ...
— Bought and Paid For - From the Play of George Broadhurst • Arthur Hornblow
... "Disturbing! You bet it's disturbing! I don't know anything about the fellow. Never heard of him in my life. She says he wanted a quiet wedding because he thought a fellow looked such a chump getting married! And I must love him, because he's all set ...
— Indiscretions of Archie • P. G. Wodehouse
... Frenchman out of the river just below the Lachine. We'd just got through the rough water and were lyin nice and quiet, gettin things together again when that ijit Frenchman got tite and got tryin some fool trick or other walking a timber stick and got upsot into the wet. I'd a let him go, you bet, but Mack cudn't stand to see him bobbin up and down so he ripped off and in after him. He got him too, but somehow the varmint gripped him round the neck. They went down but we got em out purty quick and the Frenchman come ...
— The Man From Glengarry - A Tale Of The Ottawa • Ralph Connor
... "You bet we are!" cried Garton, enthusiastically. "There's nothing can stop us now. I expect," with a sharp look at the sheriff, "Swinnerton is feeling a ...
— Under Handicap - A Novel • Jackson Gregory
... city of the state. If you would like some of this hotel writing paper better than the kind I sent you of the General Assembly I can send you some the boys say it is free. I think it is all right you sold the calf but Wilkes didn't give you good price. Hurlbut come in while I was writing then. You bet he can always count on ...
— In the Arena - Stories of Political Life • Booth Tarkington
... it some other way," said Jimmy, "but you bet your life I'm going to get at it. It looks to me as though there's something funny about ...
— The Efficiency Expert • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... "You bet he will!" Miss O'Brien called up from below. "By this time to-morrow he'll be dead! Then the patrol wagon'll come for him, and they'll carry him off to the morgue like that Dago that dropped dead on our street. You remember ...
— A Little Question in Ladies' Rights • Parker Fillmore
... "You bet! And you can sling language about it!" said the man, and he opened his rat's mouth and laughed without noise. Even Ram Juna's face relaxed into its Buddha smile, calm, inscrutable, as the two gazed on each other. Suddenly the ...
— Jewel Weed • Alice Ames Winter
... got the advantages o' the old one, for it's nat'ral heat. But I'm keeping that heat up. I've got a hole where I kin watch it every four hours. When the time comes, I'm thar! Don't you see? That's me! that's David Fairley,—that's the old man,—you bet!" ...
— Frontier Stories • Bret Harte
... "You bet she has. The fool-killer ought to lay around here for a while. There were two dandy blokes come ...
— Jim Cummings • Frank Pinkerton
... nodded vehemently, and said: "You bet!" and then went on, after a pause, "I guess I tore my pants a little gettin' off of that mule; but I thought ...
— The Court of Boyville • William Allen White
... "You bet I think—that's what's the matter. The smelter lawsuit's made me think. They want to control government so they can have a license to murder. That's what it means. Watch 'em blight Denny Hogan's lungs down on the ...
— In the Heart of a Fool • William Allen White
... done. If the boy had not been so cheerful it would have been easier, but there he lay chatting breezily to me through the canvas, wanting to know all about our work and asking hundreds of questions. "You wait till I get home," he said, "I'll have the best eye chap there is, you bet your life. By Jove, it will be splendid to get these bandages off, ...
— Fanny Goes to War • Pat Beauchamp
... "You bet it was," agreed Herb. "It's a wonderful place to think up jokes in, too. I don't think I ever thought of so many good ones in ...
— The Radio Boys at the Sending Station - Making Good in the Wireless Room • Allen Chapman
... houting to Bolton ain't bad when the charry-bang's well loaded up With swell seven-and-sixpence-a-headers. I felt like a tarrier-pup On the scoop arter six weeks of kennel and drench in the 'ands of a vet; I'd got free of the brimstoney flaviour and went it accordin', you bet! ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 103, October 15, 1892 • Various
... did," cried the judge, with enthusiasm. "You bet he did." And they remained for a time gazing at each other, their faces illuminated with ...
— The Monster and Other Stories - The Monster; The Blue Hotel; His New Mittens • Stephen Crane
... morning and get fits. Mind he don't prune me, though. I can't afford to lose much at my time of life. You go to bed, Anna, and dream of little Willy. He's going to make your fortune on Thursday—good old Lodestar, some of 'em'll feel the draught, you bet. Don't spoil your complexion on my account, Anna. You go to bed ...
— Aladdin of London - or Lodestar • Sir Max Pemberton
... presently fooling those Afridis," he continued, waving his cigarette. "She has fooled them always, to the limit of their bally bent. They all believe she is their best friend in the world—oh, dear Yes, you bet they do! And so she is—so she is—but not in the way they think! They believe she plots with them against the Raj! Poor silly devils! Yet Yasmini loves them! They want war—blood—loot! It is all they think ...
— King—of the Khyber Rifles • Talbot Mundy
... make your hair stand on eend too, I suppose," said I; "but it's as true as preachin' for all that. What will you bet it didn't happen?" ...
— Nature and Human Nature • Thomas Chandler Haliburton
... day," Mrs. Papineau told her, "an' den you look lak' oder gal sure. Get fat an' lose de black roun' you h'eyes. You now a tousan' time better as ven you come, you bet. Dis a fine coontree, Canada, for peoples get strong an' hoongree an' work 'ard an' ...
— The Peace of Roaring River • George van Schaick
... get old Wade to say I can, you bet I'll go!" said the boy with marked enthusiasm. "He's got a 'phone, and there's one in ...
— Mixed Faces • Roy Norton
... sat down to dinner. Marm had made some apple-dumplin' that day, and 'twas good, you bet. Well, I see Bill a-eyin' the dumplin' as he shoveled in the meat and pertaters, and I knowed he meant to get more'n his share. Now, I'm fond of dumplin' as well as Bill, and I didn't like it. Well, we was both helped and went to eatin'. ...
— Joe's Luck - Always Wide Awake • Horatio Alger, Jr.
... "You bet," the gambler, who was a new arrival at Pine-tree Gulch, replied; and picking up an empty glass, he hurled it at Red George. The by-standers sprang aside, and in a moment the two men were facing each other with outstretched pistols. The two reports rung out simultaneously: ...
— Tales of Daring and Danger • George Alfred Henty
... I had my arm broke and was scalded,—her sweet mouth kept mumblin' prayers, but her fingers held an artery shut that was trying its damndest to pump Gun Gunderson's old heart dry—strong character, you bet. ...
— Danger Signals • John A. Hill and Jasper Ewing Brady
... knew it. For did not Little Hughey know all about the crooked deal by which the worthy J. Cuthbert had ousted old Nat Lawson from the presidency of the Interprovincial Loan & Savings Company? He did! You bet he did! Let Nickleby interfere with these pickings of Little Hughey and he would be shown a thing or two that would cost him a lot more than a ...
— Every Man for Himself • Hopkins Moorhouse
... "You bet! The artists spent any amount of money over the affair. The whole of Hades bristled with ingenious devices in every corner. I had got a couple of tickets, and had designed the dress of my best girl, as well as my own, and the morning before (there being little work ...
— The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes • Israel Zangwill
... "You bet he is. See that tin can in the sink? Well, I wanted a soap-shaker but couldn't afford to get one. Arthur took that can and punched the bottom full of holes. I keep it filled up with all the odds and ends of soap. When I wash the dishes, I just let the boiling ...
— Maida's Little Shop • Inez Haynes Irwin
... likes a spice of danger. She's in a nice state now, you bet. Not much sleep for her, I'll lay. Well, I tried to keep her from it, ...
— The Prophet of Berkeley Square • Robert Hichens
... "You bet. 'Long toward the openin' of the engagement there wahn't scarcely anybody thar but me, and they was a-goin'. But they come fast enough when they l'arned she was in town, and she blew 'em up higher'n the Petersburg crater. Great Tecumseh, there's a woman! ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... "You bet it's a great thing; why, I couldn't exist if I couldn't work. You remember that time I laid off for a month in the country—for my health's sake? I'll never forget it: hanging round all the time with my hands empty—everyone else with something to do. ...
— The Fortune Hunter • Louis Joseph Vance
... "He's a Jap. You bet your last round iron man that's the truth. Now, what do you think he's ...
— Boy Scouts on Motorcycles - With the Flying Squadron • G. Harvey Ralphson
... forget you," Alf remarked as we walked along, down through the meadow. "You have stood by me, and you bet your life I don't forget such things. Of course, I have known the old man ever since I can remember, but he never treated me so well before. And when the time comes, if I can get him in that dining-room I don't believe he'll refuse me. It's a blamed big ...
— The Jucklins - A Novel • Opie Read
... glad to get back with the gang again," he ejaculated. "Gee, for the last two weeks I've felt like a sneak. I can't forgive myself for getting in such a fix, just when we were in such good shape and going like a house afire. You bet that from now on my record will be as clean ...
— Bert Wilson on the Gridiron • J. W. Duffield
... my orders! I work fer the California Stage Company, I do. That's wot I work fer. They said, 'Get this man through by seving.' An' this man's goin' through, you bet! Gerlong! Whoo-ep!" ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 6 • Various
... wants us t' come, er you bet she wouldn't say so. I've learned that much about her. Say, you'd a died to seen old Dunk look down his nose! I'll bet money she done it just t' rasp his feelin's—and she sure succeeded. I'd go anyway, now, ...
— Chip, of the Flying U • B. M. Bower
... "You bet you do," his parent assured him genially. "You pay your dog tax or the policeman comes on the first of August and ...
— Lifted Masks - Stories • Susan Glaspell
... own ground. I'll see if something can't be done to stir 'em up. I haven't quite thought it out yet. There must be some way of getting them to take an interest in Socialism. Now we'll see what can be done in twelve months. What'll you bet me that I don't add a thousand members to the Union in ...
— Demos • George Gissing
... house. Then we'll bring Christmas presents home for you. What a game we are playing, we poor folks here, along with Ambassadors whose governments pay them four times what ours pays. But we don't give the game away, you bet! We throw the bluff with a fine, straight ...
— The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I • Burton J. Hendrick
... He's a professor of sociology an' such things, an' he thinks he knows all about politics. But we handed him a few last election—just you bet!" ...
— Samuel the Seeker • Upton Sinclair
... "You bet. The stout, dark man calls himself Hongri Picket. French, I guess. The fat beak is a fella named Sard. Sanchez is the guy with a face like a Canada priest—Jose Sanchez—or something on that style. And then the yellow skinned young ...
— The Flaming Jewel • Robert W. Chambers
... lot o' folks! and all lookin' so comfortable-like. They've had a good dinner,—or supper, whichever they call it—you bet, Joe, while we're as hungry as bears," said a rough, masculine voice which seemed to come from a spot close ...
— Elsie at the World's Fair • Martha Finley
... one o' the common run of cowpunchers, ma'am. You bet you, by jollies, he ain't. Clay he owns a half-interest in the B-in-a-Box. O' course it ain't what he's got, but what he is that counts. He's the best darned pilgrim ever ...
— The Big-Town Round-Up • William MacLeod Raine
... Hicks about it," she cried, eagerly. "He'll come on here and get after this thieving real estate fellow—you bet!" ...
— Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island - The Old Hunter's Treasure Box • Alice Emerson
... First A.B. You bet! And it do seem ray-ther ongrateful like, don't it now? Though as fur as that goes I don't believe Cricket's ...
— Punch Volume 102, May 28, 1892 - or the London Charivari • Various
... "You bet I would, and you should have your heart's desire, whatever that might be. If any one deserves ...
— Lydia of the Pines • Honore Willsie Morrow
... "You bet it is. You're a lucky chap to be able to stay at Grimm Manor all the time instead of being sent here, there, ...
— The Return of Peter Grimm - Novelised From the Play • David Belasco
... Now if that ghost comes along my way I shall just put a bullet in him sure as my name's Ned Kirton. So there, old lady, put that in your pipe and smoke it. Come along, Nell, my girl—don't be so stingy with that liquor, the old woman 'll make us pay for it, you bet. Why, Nell, I ain't seen such a pretty pair o' eyes this many a long ...
— The Moving Finger • Mary Gaunt
... him "noble son," He ain't no ladies' pet, But, let a row start anyhow, They'll send for him, you bet! He don't cut any ice at all In Fashion's social plan, He gets the job to face a mob, The Regular Army man; The milling, drilling, Made for killing, ...
— Poems of American Patriotism • Brander Matthews (Editor)
... "As you bet nothing at all it will not ruin you to pay it, fortunately. Ah! say then, I have had several questions on my tongue for a quarter of an hour: how did you come to be on board the frigate? how did the captain of the brigantine pick you up? did you know him? and then, this woman and ...
— A Romance of the West Indies • Eugene Sue
... "You bet! And say, you ought to learn golf. It's the finest sport going." West's hopes revived. A fellow that wanted sport, if only football, could not be a bad sort. Besides, he would get over wanting to study; that, to West, was a most unnatural desire. "There isn't half a ...
— The Half-Back • Ralph Henry Barbour
... 'You bet that I went for the boy, whom I sent for The moment he weighed and came out of the stand — 'Who paid you to win it? Come, own up this minute.' 'Lord love yer,' said he, 'why ...
— The Man from Snowy River • Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson
... manner in which the child had been taught to intimate that Mr. Miller had been removed to the sphere of celestial reward. But Randolph immediately added, "My father's in Schenectady. He's got a big business. My father's rich, you bet!" ...
— Daisy Miller • Henry James
... set well back on my 'ed, And my spine fairly 'umped to it, CHARLIE, and then carn't I paint the town red? They call me "The Camel" for that, and my stomach-capas'ty for "wet." Well, my motter is hease afore helegance. As for the liquor,—you bet! ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 7, 1892 • Various
... "You bet I see!" she cried warmly. "The first thing I see is that I've got more men on this job than I need. If there's no work for you to do, call tonight for your time. If you've got anything to do, ...
— Judith of Blue Lake Ranch • Jackson Gregory
... him. I can even tell you how it happened. Connal insisted on having one end of the donga to himself, and of course his end is the one nearest the Boers. Well, then, he tells the other fellows to go to sleep at their end—I have it direct from one of them—and you bet they don't need a second invitation. The rest I hope to ...
— Raffles - Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman • E. W. Hornung
... "you're to go to school, too, and make every day count, There's lots to learn, and it's all good. Get as much as ye can every day. I'm goin' myself, you bet, when I get things fixed up, and Teddy and all of us. We've got the money to git the clothes, and we'll go as far with it as ...
— The Second Chance • Nellie L. McClung
... be interested, sir,' Rosenheim remarked. 'You bet!' was the terse response. 'May I inquire the cause of your concern?' Rosenheim continued placidly. With a most exasperating air of willingness to please, the stranger rejoined: 'Why, I jest took a simple pleasure, sir, in seeing an amachoor like you talking French about a little ...
— The Collectors • Frank Jewett Mather
... no schooner, you bet; she's jest the finist steamer that ever runned inter Mobile, and they've turned her into ...
— A Victorious Union - SERIES: The Blue and the Gray—Afloat • Oliver Optic
... come, you bet. Look here, I beg to propose that Bess Haselford writes the report of ...
— A Popular Schoolgirl • Angela Brazil
... want, you bet" he whispered. "No flies on that preacher. I like him. I like any man who can do things without a ...
— The Long Chance • Peter B. Kyne
... him. He said to me: "I will never take chloroform again." I asked, "Why not, Jim?" and he replied: "During this operation, while I was under the influence of chloroform, it seemed to me as if I was going from one saloon to another, and they tell me I didn't do a thing except holler for beer. You bet I will never touch chloroform again." After five weeks in the hospital, Jim, thanks to his fine constitution, pulled through, but the first day he went out on the street he was "picked up" by a vigilant "plain-clothes" man on suspicion of being implicated in a robbery, and spent several hours ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. • Various
... "You bet," Dicky returned. "The idea came to me in a flash. You can see what a heroic figure she was. I had her get into her Polish dress—she had brought one with her from the old country—and I painted her as Poland—miserable, ...
— Revelations of a Wife - The Story of a Honeymoon • Adele Garrison
... close to Cleeve Abbey, but we didn't stop to see old ruins this time, you bet! We just tore down the first lane we saw running back into the highroad,—a pretty steep bit of ground too—and, by Jove!—didn't we whizz round the corner at the bottom! That was a near shave, I ...
— The Treasure of Heaven - A Romance of Riches • Marie Corelli
... cheerfully. "We've looked ever'where for you. We're your frien's. He said it was at 'n eatin'-house. We've been ever' eatin'-house in Inchbrook. Was here first of all. Leave it to Rodney. Wassen we, Rodney? You bet we was. You wassen here at 'leven o'clock. Come on home, Conshance. 'S all right. He's safe. ...
— The Husbands of Edith • George Barr McCutcheon
... he, 'you're acquainted with old Sewis? Why, of course you are. Yes, old Sewis 's alive, Master Harry. And you bet me at single-wicket! That 'll be something to relate to 'em all. By Gearge, if I didn't think I'd got a nettle in my fist when I saw you pitch into my stumps. Dash it! thinks I. But th' old squire 'll be proud of you, that he will. My farm lies three miles away. You look at a crow flying due ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... "'You bet!' I snorts. 'It's time you was tucked in. The dew is fallin' and some rude person might accost you. You big slob! There's a man's work to do to-night, and as I don't seem to have no competition in holding the title, I s'pose it's my lead.' I throwed ...
— Pardners • Rex Beach
... "You bet we will! You needn't think I'm down and out because you've said no, once! I'm not awfully swift, Patty, but I'm terribly persistent,—and I'm just going to keep on loving you, in hope that some day you'll come to ...
— Patty's Suitors • Carolyn Wells
... he teaches school, Has teached for nigh on forty year, And I jist want to say right here, That though he may not fit your rule, Wes Banks, by jings, he ain't no fool. And if you bet your dough 'gin Wes, You'll want your money ...
— The Loom of Life • Cotton Noe
... fur that's on his coat, From Germany comes his watch; His trousers the "London make" denote, His accent is Franco-Scotch; His liquor is Special Scotch; He "guesses" much, and he says "You bet"; His manner is slow and sly; His smoke is a Turkish cigarette, For he is a Russian Spy— A ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 31, 1892 • Various
... at his friend—as he considered Hurd, since the invitation to dinner—with a blood-shot pair of eyes. "Come storm, come calm," he growled, "I've sailed the ocean for forty years. Yes, sir, you bet. I was a slip of a fifteen cabin-boy on my first cruise, and then I got on to being skipper. Lord," Jessop smacked his knee, "the things ...
— The Opal Serpent • Fergus Hume
... mad. When I got mad enough I cussed and came to a decision: which was to go after Old Man Hooper and all his works that very night. Next day wouldn't do; I wanted action right off quick. Naturally I had no plans, nor even a glimmering of what I was going to do about it; but you bet you I was going to do something! As soon as it was dark I was going right on up there. Frontal attack, you understand. As to details, those would take care of themselves as the affair developed. Having come to which sapient decision I shoved the whole irritating mess ...
— The Killer • Stewart Edward White
... all right," murmured Cousin Egbert in a sort of ecstasy, as we drew up at the Floud home. "And yet one of them guys back there called him a typical Britisher. You bet I shut him up quick—saying a thing like that about a plumb stranger. I'd 'a' mixed it with him right there except I thought it was better to have things nice and not start something the ...
— Ruggles of Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson
... "No, you bet he ain't!" he snapped. "He's been doin' that too long already. He's got somethin' to answer ...
— The Harbor of Doubt • Frank Williams
... Tortoise. "Let's run! Will you bet me?" "Why, certainly." "Done!" While the slow Tortoise creeps Mr. Hare makes four leaps, And then loafs around ...
— Fables in Rhyme for Little Folks - From the French of La Fontaine • Jean de La Fontaine
... me, Governor, so help me I won't. Don't you be afraid that I'll save it and spare it and live idle on it. There won't be a penny of it left by Monday: I'll have to go to work same as if I'd never had it. It won't pauperize me, you bet. Just one good spree for myself and the missus, giving pleasure to ourselves and employment to others, and satisfaction to you to think it's not been throwed away. You ...
— Pygmalion • George Bernard Shaw
... "Fine woman! You bet she is! She's too plaguy fine, that's the trouble with her. She's so afraid her boarders'll starve that she forgets all about makin' money. She's the best woman there is in the world, but she needs a mean partner. Then the two of them might ...
— Thankful's Inheritance • Joseph C. Lincoln
... "You bet you have," declared Steve; "we don't let you off from that job. And when you've got your hand in, we'll expect you to take care of the fuel business ...
— With Trapper Jim in the North Woods • Lawrence J. Leslie
... eh? You bet it is. You know all about the calm before the storm and the little cloud the size of the man's hand which comes up about eight bells and does a general chaos business without any advance notices. Well, that cloud in our school elections is impersonated by Mrs. Delia Arbingle, and she usually ...
— Homeburg Memories • George Helgesen Fitch
... military sentry. You know the sort of thing I mean. Bandolier, belt, and frightfully stiff about the back. He held up his hand and I stopped. 'A loyal man,' he said. Well, I was, so far as I knew at that time, so I said 'You bet.' 'That's not right,' said he. 'Give the countersign.' I hadn't heard anything about a countersign, so I told him not to be a damned fool, and that I'd break his head if he said I wasn't a loyal man. That seemed to puzzle him a bit He got ...
— Our Casualty And Other Stories - 1918 • James Owen Hannay, AKA George A. Birmingham
... warm blooded young fellow who had never in his life really suffered from cold. Some instinct of self-preservation impelled him to phone in for a canvas bed sheet—a "tarp," he had heard Hank Brown call it—and two pairs of the heaviest blankets to be had in Quincy. You bet a fellow ought to be prepared for the worst when he is planning to winter in a cave! Especially when he must do his preparing now, or tough it ...
— The Lookout Man • B. M. Bower
... the mud, clost in by the edge o' the swamp. They're a good bit from the place whar the poor young fellur's blood's been spilt, an' makin' away from it. I got only a glimp at 'em, but ked see they'd been made by a man runnin'. You bet yur life on't they war made by a pair o' boots I've seen on Dick Darke's feet. It's too gloomsome now to make any thin' out o' them. So let's you an' me come back here by ourselves, at the earliest o' daybreak, afore the people ...
— The Death Shot - A Story Retold • Mayne Reid |
