"You bet" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... he had to earn his living—didn't he? He couldn't read all the books and find out about everything right off. But you bet he found out a lot, and he believes that after a fellow gets some rudiments of education he can learn more by studying in his own way and experimenting than by just learning by rote and rule. Maybe he's not altogether right about that, for education is mighty fine and I'd like ...
— Radio Boys Cronies • Wayne Whipple and S. F. Aaron
... no question makes of Verse or Prose, But what the Editor demands he shows; And he who buys three thousand words of Drule, He knows what People want—you Bet He knows! ...
— The Rubaiyat of Omar Cayenne • Gelett Burgess
... "You bet I do, and I never thought you'd see again after the way your eyes were cooked that night. Well, of course, if you want to go to-night, it's go, Mr. Glover. You know what you're about, but I'd never look to see you going out for fun a ...
— The Daughter of a Magnate • Frank H. Spearman
... You bet I do! Anyone has a right to interfere with Harmon Dreer. Anyone who hands him a jolt is ...
— Left Tackle Thayer • Ralph Henry Barbour
... enthusiastically because of believing her at one with him in this endeavor. "You bet! The whole thing is going to work out. She'll pick up our point of view as if she was ...
— The Dust Flower • Basil King
... to, you bet on that!" snorted the farmer wrathfully. "I'll go to your aunt right ...
— Andy the Acrobat • Peter T. Harkness
... the accompaniment of the race-course, is fast becoming a national habit, and in some circles any opinion advanced on finance or politics is accosted with the interrogatory—"How much will you bet on that, sir?" ...
— The Abominations of Modern Society • Rev. T. De Witt Talmage
... Revolooshun? Jest wait till the live citizens o' these United States end Territories gits a chance, end we'll show them gentry what a free people, wi' our institooshuns, kin do. There'll be no more talk o' skoolin fer Injuns, you bet! I'd give them Kernel ...
— Tecumseh: A Drama • Charles Mair
... "You bet she'll love us," declared Leathersham, "she'll make the world go round! Hello, Little One," he turned to pat the cheek of a white-haired, red-faced old lady, who hawk-eyed and hawk-nosed, stood by, listening in. This, Mrs. Petticoat, is our Lady Bountiful, Mrs. Charity Givens—noted ...
— Ptomaine Street • Carolyn Wells
... "You bet you can. I like some one I can talk to; some guy with ideas. You see I run a broker's office down town, an' its pretty blame slow around a dump like this—you ...
— The Case and The Girl • Randall Parrish
... till we reached the roarin' forties. The skipper knew how to handle sailors, you bet he did. When they came aft to kick about the grub he knocked 'em down before ...
— The Perils of Pauline • Charles Goddard
... ain't only twenty-four years old now, and he has been in command ever since we went into Vicksburg. I have heard it said by our boys that since we veteranized the whole Regiment, officers, and men, average less than twenty-four years old. But they are gray-hounds to march and stayers in a fight, you bet. Why, the rest of the troops over in West Tennessee used to call our Brigade 'Leggett's Cavalry,' for they always had us chasing Old Forrest, and we kept him skedaddling, too, pretty lively. But I tell ...
— Andersonville, complete • John McElroy
... "You bet your boots! If I had all the cash he takes in to-night, I'd buy an island and shoot the machine business. Well, I must be gettin' back. ...
— The Bread-winners - A Social Study • John Hay
... Wouldn't think of it. Tough young specimen. That's what I am. Tough. And young. Tough young specimen. Certainly. You bet." ...
— Pagan Passions • Gordon Randall Garrett
... not," "correct thing" are Bostonisms. The terms "innocent," "acknowledge the corn," "bark up the wrong tree," "great snakes," "I reckon," "playing 'possum," "dead shot," had their origin in the Southern States. "Doggone it," "that beats the Dutch," "you bet," "you bet your boots," sprang from New York. "Step down and out" originated in the Beecher trial, just as "brain-storm" originated ...
— How to Speak and Write Correctly • Joseph Devlin
... journey a child raced backwards and forwards, jumping with sticky hands clinging to the sides of each seat while it sucked candy. The mother screeched, "Say, Willie, if you don't quit that game, I'll tell your pa when we get home!" However, Willie shouted, "You bet," and paid not the ...
— Elizabeth Visits America • Elinor Glyn
... 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
... 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'. When I was half through I ...
— Joe's Luck - Always Wide Awake • Horatio Alger, Jr.
... "You bet," said Tom. "Well, then, it's all right, and there won't be any broken hearts. I've seen more broken hearts here at camp than broken heads.... You're a new troop, ...
— Tom Slade's Double Dare • Percy Keese Fitzhugh
... "You bet you've made me mad," he declared. "You can bet, too, that I won't ever do any more snooping on behalf of either of you. The next time you get in trouble you'll have to depend on someone besides Anthony Stubbs to ...
— The Boy Allies At Verdun • Clair W. Hayes
... "You bet not!" the exuberant Florence thought proper to suggest as a preferable expression. And then she had an inspiration to enliven his dreamy interest in her conversation. "Grandpa, he's the one I kind of run most of all of 'em. He's about ...
— Gentle Julia • Booth Tarkington
... I 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
... 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
... suffrage. Old prospectors back in the mountains when 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 say that it would be a bad thing for the South. All ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI • Various
... the 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
... her asleep in there now!" he continued remorsefully. "It makes me sick and disgusted with myself. I'd give anything if it hadn't happened! You bet I'll have no truck with them ...
— Two on the Trail - A Story of the Far Northwest • Hulbert Footner
... Running on parents and guardians round every corner. That's what I object to in life in the country: it's so confoundedly artificial. I shall take jolly good care I get out of it just as soon as ever I can. You bet!" ...
— Love and Mr. Lewisham • H. G. Wells
... "You bet I'm sailing on the Adriaticus" he said. He looked out at that vessel, at the Blue Peter flying from her foremast, and grinned. ...
— The Deserter • Richard Harding Davis
... ain't," Cam Gentry said to a group on his tavern veranda one annuity day when the tribes had come to town for their quarterly allowances. "He's second cousin on his father's side to some French missionary, you bet your life. He's got a gait like a Jessut priest. An' he's not Osage on't other side, neither. I'll bet his mother was a Kiowa, an' that means his maternal grandad was a rattlesnake, even if his paternal grandpop was a French markis turned religious an' gone a-missionaryin' among ...
— The Price of the Prairie - A Story of Kansas • Margaret Hill McCarter
... "You bet I've got it!" he said. "And it doesn't leave my possession, either, until it's been read into the records of this court. You'll have to call me as a witness, Niles. That's the only way we can get this over, since I can't very well act as counsel ...
— The Camp Fire Girls in the Mountains - or Bessie King's Strange Adventure • Jane L. Stewart
... had what's comin' to you, you bet I wouldn't work on no cattle-ranch, either. I'd sure hire a law-shark and find ...
— Sundown Slim • Henry Hubert Knibbs
... from the blaze. They come across the square—not galloping now, but taking it easy, laughing and talking and cussing and joking each other—and passed right by my lumber pile agin and down the street they had come. You bet I laid low on them boards while they was going by, and flattened myself out till I felt ...
— Danny's Own Story • Don Marquis
... odd wistfulness his smile always took on when he spoke to Barbara. To Bangs, Barbara had become a temple at whose portal he removed his earth-stained shoes. "You want us to look after Laurie," he added, quietly. "Well, you bet ...
— The Girl in the Mirror • Elizabeth Garver Jordan
... by acclamation. affirmative &c 535. Adv. yes, yea, ay, aye, true; good; well; very well, very true; well and good; granted; even so, just so; to be sure, 'thou hast said', you said it, you said a mouthful; truly, exactly, precisely, that's just it, indeed, certainly, you bet, certes [Lat.], ex concesso [Lat.]; of course, unquestionably, assuredly, no doubt, doubtless; naturally, natch. be it so; so be it, so let it be; amen; willingly &c 602. affirmatively, in the affirmative. OK, all right, might as ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... "You bet I couldn't," cried Dan, firing up; but Champe was reading the letter, and a faint flush had risen to his face. "The girl is like a spray of golden-rod in the sunshine," wrote the ...
— The Battle Ground • Ellen Glasgow
... "Oh, you bet I'll go, Mr. Farrington. The store closes at twelve on Saturdays. I guess Coney'll be all right even if we did spend a week ...
— The Voice of the City • O. Henry
... "You bet!" said the blacksmith, with deep reverence. "Look at his nose! look at his eyes! Intellect? Just a ...
— A Double Barrelled Detective Story • Mark Twain
... your old uncle is stiff an' cold an' can't speak no more—an' no one would know what 'ad become o' Ned Landon if I wasn't here to tell them an' show his own letter! I'll tell them all, right enough!—you bet your ...
— Innocent - Her Fancy and His Fact • Marie Corelli
... 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 pity that I can't talk as you ...
— The Jucklins - A Novel • Opie Read
... feeling your muscle, "Pet," Isn't a job that brings SANDOW to mind. Where would you be in a real hard tussle, "Pet"? You're not a Pug of the wear-and-tear kind. Foes many menace you. Champions, boy, you know, Challenge all comers; they have to—you bet. When you can do so, I'll leave you with joy, ...
— Punch, Or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 21, 1891 • Various
... cut out your appendix, and charge your papa a thousand dollars. Oh, you bet, them that's ...
— The Poor Little Rich Girl • Eleanor Gates
... "Gee, you bet!" said Jerry; and he set down his sack. If some one desired to admire the kid, he was willing to stop any length ...
— King Coal - A Novel • Upton Sinclair
... for you, auntie. I shan't listen when you want to tell me about yours. Gee, Uncle Jack listens, you bet. I wish he was here this minute. Say, is he ever going to get married?" There was no answer. He peered over the top of the pillow. There were tears in his Aunt Loraine's eyes. "Oh, say, auntie, darling, don't cry! ...
— Truxton King - A Story of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon
... amazing sequel to the past meant to him. He would not only have company in his dreary solitude, but, of all company, the very one he yearned for to comfort his heart. "Give us your paw, old man—shake. You bet ...
— Lahoma • John Breckenridge Ellis
... "You bet I am, you old bag o' wool. Remember Geny? Remember the night on the door-step? Ooo! but it was cold! ...
— The Shadow World • Hamlin Garland
... "You bet she is!" responded Teddy with enthusiasm. "I don't wonder that sailors get so fond of their boats that they'd rather go down with them ...
— The Rushton Boys at Treasure Cove - Or, The Missing Chest of Gold • Spencer Davenport
... the Tasmanian Wolf is about the fiercest brute in the world to tackle, next to the Tasmanian Devil; an' I had one o' them pretty near beat in Auckland, till he went an' died on me. Tame this Giant Irishman—you bet your sweet life I will; an' have him cavortin' through a hoop inside of a month—or maybe a week—if I'm not kept busy wastin' my time over ...
— Finn The Wolfhound • A. J. Dawson
... "You bet they have comical goings-on at that woman's farm by the Gooseville depot! She got a regular menagerie, fust off—everything she see or could hear of. Got sick o' the circus bizness, and went into potatoes deep. They say she was actually up and outdoors ...
— Adopting An Abandoned Farm • Kate Sanborn
... exchanged greetings—complained of terrific colics all the preceding night. His stomach was out of whack, but you bet he knew how to take care of himself; the last spell, he had consulted a doctor at Bonneville, a gibbering busy-face who had filled him up to the neck with a dose of some hogwash stuff that had made ...
— The Octopus • Frank Norris
... I darst, I'd lick my pa for the times that he's licked me! I'd lick my brother an' my teacher, too! I'd lick the fellers that call round on sister after tea, An' I'd keep on lickin' folks till I got through! You bet! I'd run away From my lessons to my play, An' I'd shoo the hens, an' tease the cat, an' kiss the girls all day— If ...
— Songs and Other Verse • Eugene Field
... 'arm if they does see us, an' we can go into the private bar, an' you bet your boots there ...
— Liza of Lambeth • W. Somerset Maugham
... m'son—but it ain't any josh. By gracious, I mean it!" He glared at those who gurgled incredulously, and went on: "No, sir, you bet it ain't any josh with me this time. That old gazabo had something heavy on his conscience—and knowing the fellow he had reference to, I sure believe he lied a whole lot when he said Dan pulled out with all the stuff ...
— The Happy Family • Bertha Muzzy Bower
... like to. I will if I can, you bet. I think I can work it. Now s'long and don't forget to have that Pole shunted out of the ...
— Prince or Chauffeur? - A Story of Newport • Lawrence Perry
... "You bet! I hope Jimmy has done half as well. He was a kind of plodder, though, good fellow as he was. I've had to compete with some of the sharpest wits going to get my pile. A man gets in a groove in New York. It takes the West to put a ...
— The Four Million • O. Henry
... 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 you'd ...
— The Court of Boyville • William Allen White
... bronk straight up, or don't know which way a saddle sets on a horse. If he's a man he gets as square a deal as we can give him." Park reached for his cigarette book. "And as for hunting outlaws," he finished, "we've got old Lauman paid to do that. And he's dead onto his job, you bet; when he goes out after a man he comes pretty near getting him, m'son. But I sure do wish I'd killed that jasper while I was about it; it would have saved Lauman a lot uh ...
— The Lure of the Dim Trails • by (AKA B. M. Sinclair) B. M. Bower
... all but the nose."—"And the figure?"—"He was taller."—I could not stand this. So I got up and took it, and gave it her, and after some reluctance, she consented to "keep it for me." What will you bet me that it wasn't all a trick? I'll tell you why I suspect it, besides being fairly out of my wits about her. I had told her mother half an hour before, that I should take this image and leave it at Mrs. B.'s, for that I didn't wish to leave anything behind me that must bring me back again. Then ...
— Liber Amoris, or, The New Pygmalion • William Hazlitt
... Axle Oil, Brown's Baking Powder, or anything else of Brown's he was showing, till his customer would see nothing but Brown's Axle Oil and Brown's Baking Powder all over his shop, and he'd be reaching for the whole output. One thing! You bet!" ...
— The Prospector - A Tale of the Crow's Nest Pass • Ralph Connor
... "You bet I laffed, an' so did Sandy. Ez I heern later on, the chap had ben a-botherin' roun' Nellie all winter, fur all she'd gin him the mitten straight an' sent him about his bizness heaps o' times. I reckon the feller suspicioned we was a-laffin' at him, ...
— Earth's Enigmas - A Volume of Stories • Charles G. D. Roberts
... "Oh, if you like," he roared. "I'll prove to you that your white eyelashes may very well be ascribed to the Church of Ivan the Great's being two hundred and fifty feet high, and I will prove it clearly, exactly, progressively, and even with a Liberal tendency! I undertake to! Will you bet ...
— Crime and Punishment • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... asked Bart. "You bet we are!" replied Dick. "We ought to treat them as the French do at Mayence and the British at Cologne. They know the people they're dealing with, and while they're just, they're stern. Anyone who tries to put anything over on them finds that he's monkeying with a buzz saw. Unless we wake up from ...
— Army Boys on German Soil • Homer Randall
... "YOU BET WE WANT YOU!" roared the voice over the 'phone. "Here we are, with plenty of money and not a relation on earth but you to leave it to. You belong to us by rights. We'd be tickled to death to have you, and for you to have what's left of the money ...
— Her Father's Daughter • Gene Stratton-Porter
... awful calamity. It isn't going to blast his career or anything. It's always touch and go. I might have been sent down any day. I should have been if they'd known about me half what they don't know about Nicky. Why can't you take it as a rag? You bet he does." ...
— The Tree of Heaven • May Sinclair
... "Ned, you bet I'll be on hand when them turkeys are served out," he would say. "You won't need to carry my Thanksgiving dinner up from Brownie's. Say, ain't it bully for the folks at home to be giving us a Thanksgiving like this? Turkeys, sausages, mince-pies! They say there's going to ...
— Old Man Savarin and Other Stories • Edward William Thomson
... "You bet," said the digger. "Oh, yes, any Gawd's quantity." He laughed again. "You must think me pretty green, mister." He continued to laugh. "How much ...
— The Tale of Timber Town • Alfred Grace
... You bet. Gee, I wish it was all over an' I was home in the foothills with the brown wool and pink prairie roses underfoot and the Chinook layin' my ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Aug. 22, 1917 • Various
... broke in venomously. "You bet we have, you rotten crook. I'll pay you back proper for that deal you an' Cunningham slipped over on me. I'm gonna put a rope round yore neck for it. I sure am. Why, you big fat stiff, I was standin' watchin' you when you knocked ...
— Tangled Trails - A Western Detective Story • William MacLeod Raine
... Tressan, "I bet," said the Emperor to me "that you would not play your expectation against me on this chess board, unless I were to propose some very high stake." "Done, replied I, I will play then, provided only you bet against me your Kingdom of France." "Very good, let us see," cried Charlemagne, who fancied himself to be strong at chess. We play forthwith, I win his Kingdom, he falls a laughing at it, but I swear by St. Martin and all the Saints of Aquitain, that he must needs pay me by some ...
— Chess History and Reminiscences • H. E. Bird
... Your gardener'll find a new specimen in the 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 ...
— Aladdin of London - or Lodestar • Sir Max Pemberton
... an honest boy like Ned Foreman, who is trying to make a man of himself," continued Frank indignantly. "You've nigh ruined his chances already. You want to leave him alone. Mean and low as you are, he is ashamed to tell the professor about it, but I'll tell him, you bet. Now, then, you get away from ...
— The Boys of Bellwood School • Frank V. Webster
... "You bet. But tell me about yourself. How you've been and how come you've rebelled, too? I haven't seen you for a long time, you know. Why, ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 • Various
... Tom! Pussy, pussy, pussy!" He listened, and called again. "I hope the coyotes ain't caught him while I was gone," he said at length. "They treed him a few times last year, but he just stayed up there and yelled until I came—spoiled his voice callin' so long, but you bet he ...
— Hidden Water • Dane Coolidge
... "You bet!" says Claire. "Between you and me, this art career of mine has rather fizzled out. Besides, keeping it up has got to be rather a bore. Honest, a spaghetti and cigarette life is a lot more romantic to read about than it is to follow. ...
— The House of Torchy • Sewell Ford
... '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 you ...
— The Man from Snowy River • Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson
... 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 ...
— The Treasure of Heaven - A Romance of Riches • Marie Corelli
... 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 a ...
— Punch Volume 102, May 28, 1892 - or the London Charivari • Various
... "You bet it ain't!" declared the expert Rachel. "My mother was working on shirts for a straight ten ...
— The Long Day - The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself • Dorothy Richardson
... 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 ...
— Fanny Goes to War • Pat Beauchamp
... Boozy dear? Yah! What about the croup? It was early days when He made the croup, I guess. It was the best He could think of then; but when it turned out wrong on His hands He made you and me to fight the croup for him. You bet He didn't make us for nothing; and He wouldn't have made us at all if He could have done His work without us. By Gum, that must be what we're for! He'd never have made us to be rotten drunken blackguards like ...
— The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet • George Bernard Shaw
... quite the right Judge," said an elegant blue crane to a wild duck; "he will make himself heard and respected." Whereat the Cockatoo winked at the Crane, and said, "You bet ...
— Dot and the Kangaroo • Ethel C. Pedley
... "You bet I am," acquiesced Barnes, "and I'm alive to tell it. Likewise I may have some marriage plans of my own. But keep your hair on, Travers. Let us do some real thinking, unaccustomed as we are to it, and see if we cannot devise some ...
— Officer 666 • Barton W. Currie
... look at it," responded Dorsenne. "But, yes," he continued, as Montfanon shrugged his shoulders, "in my capacity of novelist and observer, since you cast it at my head, I know already what it is. What do you bet?... It is a prayer-book which bears the signature of Marshal de Montluc, and which Cardinal Guerillot discovered. Is that true? He spoke to Mademoiselle Hafner about it, and he thought he would mitigate ...
— Cosmopolis, Complete • Paul Bourget
... after all," reflected Sam, again after the fashion of all traveling men. "Any fellow on the road earns his salary these days, you bet. I used to think it was all getting up when you felt like it, and sitting in the big front window of the hotel, smoking a cigar and watching the pretty girls go by. I wasn't wise to the packing, and the unpacking, and the rotten train service, and the grouchy customers, ...
— Stories from Everybody's Magazine • 1910 issues of Everybody's Magazine
... head and started again down the winding, steep trail. "I don't hunt over that way for maybe a week. That's too bad he's killed. I like Fred Thurman. He's a fine man, you bet." ...
— The Quirt • B.M. Bower
... "You bet you are!" cried Tom, quick to follow King's lead. "Our noble Queen has but to say the word, and it is our law. Therefore, O Queen, we beg thee to mete out a just punishment to this ...
— Marjorie at Seacote • Carolyn Wells
... 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
... answered, looking him over derisively, as he passed into the house. "You're crowing loud for your size. And don't you bet heavy on that proposition, ...
— Mavericks • William MacLeod Raine
... anyhow," he answered. "Gabriel'll want to know the whys and wherefores, you bet. But Neale won't tell us anything—he's too thick ...
— The Chestermarke Instinct • J. S. Fletcher
... "You bet I am," exclaimed Billy, concealing the effect of the bull's-eye shot Bucky had made. "I'm not particularly happy in the thought of reporting myself stripped in this sort of way. The breed will hang to thick cover, and it won't be difficult to follow ...
— Isobel • James Oliver Curwood
... 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
... Grimes' rising inflection indicated nervous tension. "Did a man with a bad heart come here in the dead of night for nothing but that foolishness?" Grimes glared at his three visitors. "You bet ...
— The Red Seal • Natalie Sumner Lincoln
... "You bet!" Con was awake at once and alert. Ten minutes later, closing the doors and windows of his cabin after him, he joined White on the leaf-strewn path to the woods. He went five miles and then ...
— The Man Thou Gavest • Harriet T. Comstock
... in a hoarse voice, followed by a reckless laugh. "But he'll find it a hard job to corner me, you bet!" ...
— The Outdoor Chums on the Gulf • Captain Quincy Allen
... little off colour, perhaps; but I shall be all right on the night, you bet!" i.e., "Not going to be dictated to ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, 1890.05.10 • Various
... "You bet your sweet life I am," his host replied unequivocally. A shade crossed his face, and vanished in an instant. "But then," he argued, "I didn't have such a soft thing where I was. I was a clerk—that is, a bookkeeper—on a salary, and I had to work ...
— The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories • Charles Egbert Craddock
... 'll sober 'im!" he grinned, slamming the last window down. "What'll you bet 'er 'ighness don't want me to fetch dinner to 'er? She was in the train in Mombasa two hours afore startin' time, an' the things she ordered me to do 'ud have made a 'alf-breed think 'e was demeaning of 'imself! I 'aven't seen the color of 'er money yet. ...
— The Ivory Trail • Talbot Mundy
... "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 ...
— The Half-Back • Ralph Henry Barbour
... setting there in the sand, but she's all right, you bet, for fly. Them fellers, they get lost, I think. They get away off there, and no gas to fly back. No place to buy none, you bet." He grinned sardonically up at Johnny who was leaning against the adobe wall. "They get the ...
— Skyrider • B. M. Bower
... them at night," Dave said; "it gets pretty cold up in the mountains when the sun is down, and we shan't be lighting any fires, you bet." ...
— The Golden Canyon - Contents: The Golden Canyon; The Stone Chest • G. A. Henty
... has spent His very last cent— The world looks blue, you bet; But give him a dollar And loud he will holler There's life in the ...
— Evening Round Up - More Good Stuff Like Pep • William Crosbie Hunter
... "Boss me? You bet he won't. I open those windows, I guess, but the darn fool won't take turns shuttin' 'em ...
— Flappers and Philosophers • F. Scott Fitzgerald
... 'You bet I will!' he answered, his voice ringing with his eagerness to do anything she might ask of him. 'If you want me to stay, ...
— The Desert Valley • Jackson Gregory
... laughed. "You bet I can do something," she snapped. "You just watch me. That's what I brought you out here for this morning. If those devils try to lay around me, I'll show them a thing or two. I wish we had an earlier start though," ...
— El Diablo • Brayton Norton
... "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' ...
— The Red Badge of Courage - An Episode of the American Civil War • Stephen Crane
... 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 the ...
— Mixed Faces • Roy Norton
... eyes flashed mischievously. "You bet I shall," he replied with alacrity; and crossing the room, he stood before Nellie, saying in his most genial tones, "May I have the ...
— Aunt Judith - The Story of a Loving Life • Grace Beaumont
... 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 ...
— Raffles - Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman • E. W. Hornung
... "You bet it will," assented his comrade with enthusiasm. "Anyhow, my pay is fine and I expect to work other towns in the same way. I will show you the most artistic display window you ever saw when I get this load of ...
— Ralph on the Engine - The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail • Allen Chapman
... "No, you bet it isn't," Donnelly affirmed. "Things are getting worse every day. The reformers don't have to call my attention to it; I'm wise. So far, they have confined their operations to their own people, but what's to prevent them from spreading out? Some day those Italians will break over and tackle ...
— The Net • Rex Beach
... "You bet I know how," growled Bill eagerly, as he stepped forward, picking out the fellows he wanted as his helpers. "I'll have the blast against the roadbed here ready ...
— The Young Engineers in Colorado • H. Irving Hancock
... said Badger, choking down his wrath. "He went to draw a gun on me, and I jumped on him, that's all. A man is a fool to let another get the drop on him, and I allow I don't intend to. You bet I don't. I'll see him again, and when I do I ...
— Frank Merriwell's Reward • Burt L. Standish
... her excited unpacking of goodies from home, studied the little card for a moment and then said, "What will you bet that isn't ...
— Tabitha at Ivy Hall • Ruth Alberta Brown
... thrill and you want to get up and go ahead if you lose a limb in the attempt And that's what those 'niggers' did. You just heard the Lieutenant say, 'Men, will you follow me?' and you hear a tremendous shout answer him, 'You bet we will,' and right up through that death-dealing storm you see men charge, that is, you see them until the darned Springfield rifle powder blinds you and ...
— History of Negro Soldiers in the Spanish-American War, and Other Items of Interest • Edward A. Johnson
... so, old man. You're highly strung and nervy, and a poet and all that sort of thing. I'm no better than a prize ox, and don't know what nerves mean. I can sleep anywhere, anyhow. If you can sleep in a submarine, you bet you can in a nice, airy Elizabethan room, even if it is haunted. But it's not; that's the whole point. There's not a haunted room in the world. Get me your service revolver, like ...
— The Grey Room • Eden Phillpotts
... "You bet," chimed in the mate; "but for the wash of the water a stopping it, he would have bled to death! Have you got a ...
— Picked up at Sea - The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek • J.C. Hutcheson
... noble son, He ain't no lady's pet; But let a row start anyhow, They'll send for him, you bet. He packs his little knapsack up And starts off in the van, To start the fight, and start it right, The ...
— Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O • Various
... "You bet there is!" his daughter seconded him from the favorite low seat that permitted her to rest her ...
— The Treasure • Kathleen Norris
... 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 to ...
— The Mission of Janice Day • Helen Beecher Long |
