"You bet" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "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, ...
— The Return of Peter Grimm - Novelised From the Play • David Belasco
... "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!" Martin bent and kissed the child. He approved of Nancy. Martin could never patiently endure complications, and Nancy was simple and direct. Joan was another matter. At the last ...
— The Shield of Silence • Harriet T. Comstock
... with a lot of power. Add, he's in love, and some one distracts him. Not love, do you say?—you look it. He worships. He has no chance given him to show himself at his best. Perhaps he is off again now. Will you bet me he is not?' ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... "You bet I do! She's a reg'lar-builter! Well, she don't like to have me wearin' out my best clo'es every day," ...
— The Very Small Person • Annie Hamilton Donnell
... schooner, you bet; she's jest the finist steamer that ever runned inter Mobile, and they've turned her into a cruiser," Bird ...
— A Victorious Union - SERIES: The Blue and the Gray—Afloat • Oliver Optic
... you bet" he whispered. "No flies on that preacher. I like him. I like any man who can do things without a diagram ...
— The Long Chance • Peter B. Kyne
... bored a hole through poor Joe when I come up," he chuckled. "But you bet I hugged him when I found what he'd done, Johnny! Joe says their camp was just over the range from us that night FitzHugh looked us up, an' Joanne thought she'd been dreamin'. He didn't have any help, but his intention was to ...
— The Hunted Woman • James Oliver Curwood
... 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, so you ...
— The Prophet of Berkeley Square • Robert Hichens
... "You bet," was the latter's reply. "This thing, of floating along, not knowing the next minute you are liable to be on the bottom, would try anybody's, nerves. By Jove! I can feel my hair standing ...
— The Boy Allies Under Two Flags • Ensign Robert L. Drake
... "You bet there is," said Mr. Fleck emphatically, "but that is the last thing I am thinking of doing yet. He is only one link in a great chain that extends from our battleships and transports there in the North River clear into the heart of Berlin. ...
— The Apartment Next Door • William Andrew Johnston
... "You bet," answered the Pole. "I see it's a fair cop. All I say is, I don't believe any Pole could have imitated my accent like I ...
— The Man Who Was Thursday - A Nightmare • G. K. Chesterton
... suggesting here, helping there, alert, even joyous in manner. "We couldn't have a better roost, lads," he said. "We can stand off double their number easy. We can hold out a week if need be, but you bet the major will be reaching out after us before we're two days older. Don't waste your shots. Coax them close in. Don't fire at a galloping Indian beyond three hundred yards. It's waste ...
— A Daughter of the Sioux - A Tale of the Indian frontier • Charles King
... father turned sharply upon him. "Whatever is won is lost. It's all a game; it don't make any difference what you bet on. Business is business, and a business man takes his ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... just the place then. None of the fair sex there, my boy. You can enjoy the privilege of doing up your own linen to the fullest extent. You won't have anybody to iron your collars there, you bet." ...
— The Blunders of a Bashful Man • Metta Victoria Fuller Victor
... 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, just ...
— Chip, of the Flying U • B. M. Bower
... they never notice that, and I stand them up high and dry in the drip-pan. Then I go in after the girls, and they quiet down the babies in the drip-pan; and then the mothers I bring out, and the boys and the fathers. Sometimes some of the men make a dash out before the women, but you bet I lay them back in a hurry. Then I set the ocean back on the stove, and I rub the babies to get their blood circlin' again, and I get them all put to bed on the second shelf and they soon forget they were so ...
— Sowing Seeds in Danny • Nellie L. McClung
... 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
... "You bet I will!" exclaimed the boy, his blue eyes shining, "and I'll do my best to show you I—I ain't so bad as I—as I seem—an' we'll shake on it if you like." And Spike advanced with his hand outstretched, then paused, suddenly abashed, and drooping his head, turned away. "I—I forgot," ...
— The Definite Object - A Romance of New York • Jeffery Farnol
... you, you bet, missy," replied the image. "He guv me a quarter and axed if I know'd my alphabet 'nuf to find letter 'B,' an' tote dese yere to the prettiest young lady I'd ever seed. Most wite ladies, dey looks all jes' alike, ...
— Lady Betty Across the Water • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
... coloured people's houses he's been at," contended Sam. "Aw, dem col'red folks dat's got the money, dem's de only ones dat Santy Claus fin's, you bet." ...
— The heart of happy hollow - A collection of stories • Paul Laurence Dunbar
... 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
... gray mare, then took the train thar, toting my saddle bags on my arm. When I got off the train at the dee-pot, a nigger steps up and says ter me: 'Boss, give me yer verlisse.' He didn't get them saddle bags, you bet. I was too sharp for that. I went to a hotel somewheres. They stuck a big book under my nose and says, sign hayr. I done hearn tell of them confidence and lightnin' rod men and I signed nothin'. They sent me to a room with red carpyt on the floor ...
— Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight • Mathew Joseph Holt
... "You bet your bottom dollar I can keep her safe as long as there is any dough in it for me," was the reply in almost a ...
— Campfire Girls in the Allegheny Mountains - or, A Christmas Success against Odds • Stella M. Francis
... "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
... said his brother, "but Ozzie B., when you bluff, bluff bold; when you bet, bet big; when you steal, ...
— The Bishop of Cottontown - A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills • John Trotwood Moore
... yo' money away ef you bet on it," responded Uncle Remus. "I ain't turnin' nothin' loose on chu'ch 'scriptions. I wants money right now fer ter ...
— Uncle Remus • Joel Chandler Harris
... "You bet—good and plenty! Father made me cut three switches and he didn't waste any. But I could stand Father's lickings if Mother wouldn't ...
— Chicken Little Jane • Lily Munsell Ritchie
... minute would have been just as good," said Knight. "I got Barry by the hair under water. He was at his last kick, you bet! And that rat," he added, smiling good naturedly at Harry, "was dragging him down for ...
— The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land • Ralph Connor
... gen'lemen, air all right; the trouble ain't with them. It's with me. Don't laugh: it ain't no laughin' matter. Boys—I'm bashful. That's what ails Jasper Jasperson. The girls," he cried scornfully; "you bet they know a soft snap when they see it, and I am a soft snap, an' ...
— Bunch Grass - A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch • Horace Annesley Vachell
... "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 ...
— Bought and Paid For - From the Play of George Broadhurst • Arthur Hornblow
... gentlemen!' cried the operator again, shifting his thimbles and pepper-corn about the board, here and there and everywhere in a moment; and this done, he offered M. Panchaud a bet of five sovereigns that he could not 'name the thimble what covered the corn.' 'Bet him! Bet him! Why don't you bet him?' said the defendant (a landlord), nudging M. Panchaud on the elbow; and M. Panchaud, convinced in his 'own breast' that he knew the right thimble, said—'I shall betta you five sovereign if you will ...
— The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims - Volume II (of II) • Andrew Steinmetz
... that only means eight spots at the most to dig over; and as the paper says that the treasure is three feet deep, you bet that wouldn't ...
— The Canterbury Puzzles - And Other Curious Problems • Henry Ernest Dudeney
... hersel', you bet,' Teen answered shrewdly. 'My, she's ta'en the better o's a'; but maybe I'm wrang. She's been sick o' Brigton for lang and lang, an' whiles she said she wad gang awa' to ...
— The Guinea Stamp - A Tale of Modern Glasgow • Annie S. Swan
... "Ride! you bet!" says Tita. She rolls over on the rug, and, resting on her elbows, looks up at him; Lady Rylton watching, shudders. "I've been in the saddle all my life. Just before I came here I had a real good run—my uncle's groom had one horse, I had the other; it was ...
— The Hoyden • Mrs. Hungerford
... sentiment of the whole army. Recoiling from the fatal charge on Cemetery Hill, and still followed by the terrible fire, they had heart to shout defiantly: "We've not lost confidence in the old man! This day's work won't do him no harm! Uncle Robert will get us into Washington yet—you bet he will!" ...
— A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee • John Esten Cooke
... weary manners and lovely, weary eyes, with an expression as if she doesn't take any interest in anything; but you bet she does!" said Beryl, whose language always contained a somewhat sporting flavour. "You bet she takes an interest in clothes and men and everything that's going! Nothing much gets past those weary eyes. And she is as chic as the deuce. Never have we seen such clothes up here. She smells ...
— Blue Aloes - Stories of South Africa • Cynthia Stockley
... Arabian Nights, and this mat that I have under my arm is the original carpet of Mohammed Ben Somebody-or-other. Say the word, and you can have a cruise upon the carpet." "You don't mean to say this is the Travelling Carpet?" I cried. "You bet I do," said he. "You've been to America since last I read the Arabian Nights," said I, a little suspicious. "I should think so," said he. "Been everywhere. A man with a carpet like this isn't going to moulder in a semi-detached villa." Well, that struck me as reasonable. "All right," I said; ...
— The Ebb-Tide - A Trio And Quartette • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne
... not going to be deserted," said Angel, in his lordly way, "we'll just adopt you on our own. Mrs. Handsomebody won't let us have a dog, nor a guinea pig, nor rabbits, nor even a white rat, but, you bet, she's got to let us keep a grandfather, if we take him right home and say he's come for a visit, and, of course, father'll have to pay for his board. ...
— Explorers of the Dawn • Mazo de la Roche
... the Rubicon,' however; and, ever after this, when at home of an afternoon, sometimes with Mick, who, of course, imitated me, sometimes without him on those occasions when he did not get permission to go ashore, I used to have a whiff at father's pipe on the sly— without his knowledge though, you bet! ...
— Young Tom Bowling - The Boys of the British Navy • J.C. Hutcheson
... all right, 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 minute ...
— Ruggles of Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson
... "You bet we'll settle," said Case, the bookkeeper, wholly ignoring it, and even then the fact was noted and ...
— Tonio, Son of the Sierras - A Story of the Apache War • Charles King
... "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 ...
— Aunt Judith - The Story of a Loving Life • Grace Beaumont
... 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
... "You bet they will," said Archer, emphatically. "Look at George Shriver getting ready to spring at the ball. George ...
— Golden Days for Boys and Girls - Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892 • Various
... "You bet I do. Gosh! I ain't had no fun since I went to Joe Brown's funeral an' that day I enjoyed myself—damned if I didn't! Want to go up ...
— The Light in the Clearing • Irving Bacheller
... the Missouri, and the forks lie below Benton). "They caught the darned red devils and strapped them on a horse, and swore that if they didn't just lead the way to their camp that they'd blow their b—— brains out; and Jim Baker wasn't the coon to go under if he said he'd do it—no, you bet he wasn't. So the red devils showed the trail, and soon the boys came out on a wide gulch, and saw down below the lodges of the Pagans. Baker just says, 'Now, boys, says he, 'thar's the devils, and just you go in ...
— The Great Lone Land - A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America • W. F. Butler
... come from. I got four days unexpected. I had to run down to my uncle's. The old things would have died if I hadn't. To-morrow I go back. This is my last night. I haven't had a scratch up to now. But my turn's coming, you bet. Next week I may be in heaven or hell or anywhere, or blind for life or without my legs or any damn thing you please. But I'm going to have to-night, and you're going to ...
— The Pretty Lady • Arnold E. Bennett
... "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 ...
— Adopting An Abandoned Farm • Kate Sanborn
... buy the monkeys and sell them again for three times as much as I gave for them, but you bet that when I'm called on to exercise the judgment, of a man I'll be there. And do you think that I'd fool with mines or anything else in this country? I wouldn't. I'd go to some American city and make money. Say, ...
— The Colossus - A Novel • Opie Read
... 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 farther in a night than ...
— The Outlet • Andy Adams
... "You bet I'd call it love. Love the poets write about. Grand passion. Whirls along like a tornado—makes a noise and kicks up dust—and all over in an afternoon. That's the real thing. If you can't love like that, you can't love at all—not in the grand manner. The going just as vital as the coming. Very ...
— The Side Of The Angels - A Novel • Basil King
... in the winter—dancing. Like to dance? Well, I should say! Last winter I went over to Blountsville to a dance in the court-house; there was a trial between Union and Blountsville for the best dancing. You bet I brought back the ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner
... "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
... the benefit of a pleasure yacht, doctor," said he, winking, "and you bet I'm not purser for nothing. Blame me if I sup with that crew until they shake down a bit. Barraclough's all right, and a gentleman, but I can't stand Legrand ...
— Hurricane Island • H. B. Marriott Watson
... spaced.' So I showed him, and every single time you look, you'll see Mr. Herald is made up that way, and you ought to hear me trolling out that Belgian line, soft and easy, snapping in the graft quicklike, and then yelling out the scream. You bet it catches them! If I can't get that kid on to his job, 'spect I'll have to take it back myself; least if he can't get on, he's doomed to get off. I gave him a three days' try, and if he doesn't catch by that time, ...
— Michael O'Halloran • Gene Stratton-Porter
... as 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 your life." ...
— Pieces of Eight • Richard le Gallienne
... "You bet I have, and ammunition too," answered the skipper, with a grin. "You don't catch old Eph Brown venturin' his property on an expedition like this here—among savages, too, when we gets away down among the islands ...
— Turned Adrift • Harry Collingwood
... "You BET I want him!" returned the headquarters man with a suppressed savagery that left no doubt as to his earnestness. "I want ...
— The Adventures of Jimmie Dale • Frank L. Packard
... was anything I could cover up," says Tessie, "you bet I'd deny it. But anybody on the block could put you wise. So, if you must know, every third Wednesday Aunt Nutty goes through the motions of pullin' off a pink tea. Uh-huh! It's all complete: the big silver urn polished ...
— Wilt Thou Torchy • Sewell Ford
... "You bet he did have something to do with my being here!" Thede insisted. "You see, it's just this way: Old Finklebaum says to me one day, 'I'll take the hair off Ikey's head for selling that Little ...
— Boy Scouts in Northern Wilds • Archibald Lee Fletcher
... "Gee, you bet!" said Jerry; and he set down his sack. If some one desired to admire the kid, he was willing to ...
— King Coal - A Novel • Upton Sinclair
... your pistol when you here someone comin. An I says I dont wait till the sheep is stole I drew it this afternoon from the Supply sargent. An I showed it to him tucked inside my shirt where noone could get it away from me without some tussel, you bet, Mable. But it seems that you got to keep on drawin it all the time. Then later I here footsteps. I was expectin the relief so I was right on the job. An a man come up and I poked my pistol right in his face an says Halt. Who goes there? And he ...
— Dere Mable - Love Letters Of A Rookie • Edward Streeter
... "You bet we did!" answered the captain, his keen, handsome face lighting at the memory. "You see," he continued in a practical spirit, "they would probably have pumped us full of holes ...
— World's War Events, Volume III • Various
... was always cautious, made detours whenever I noticed anything suspicious. “You bet I look out for number ...
— The Great Salt Lake Trail • Colonel Henry Inman
... him to be sure and shoot first. He bade us all good-by, and a chum of his went with him. About an hour before daybreak they returned and awoke me, when the aggrieved boy said: "Mr. Anthony, I didn't kill him. No, I didn't kill him. He's a good man. You bet he's a game one. Oh, he's a good man all right." That morning when I awoke both lads were out on herd, and I had an early appointment to meet parties in town. Major Hunter gave me the story immediately on my arrival. The boys had located the offender ...
— Reed Anthony, Cowman • Andy Adams
... "You bet she did. She was an awful bright kid," said Gladys. "Now, I tell you what, Maria, I shouldn't a mite wonder if your step-ma had had a telegram from her cousin by this time, that she was to her house. You'd better ...
— By the Light of the Soul - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... "Try! You bet you'll try! Better get home right away. Give me that bundle—I'll have it checked up, so you won't ...
— Felix O'Day • F. Hopkinson Smith
... thought the 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
... pardner—him an' us sold on the same beat—and he jes' got run over by a 'lectric, and it went over his back. So they tuk him to the horspittle, 'n Larks he up an' died there yestiddy. So us fellars we're goin' to give Larks a stylish funeril, you bet. We liked Larks—an' it went over his back. Say, mister, there ain't nothin' mean 'bout us, come to buryin' of Larks; 'n we've voted to settle on one them 'Gates Ajar' pieces—made o'flowers, doncherknow. So me 'n him an' the other fellars we've saved up all our propurty, for we're agoin' ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol. VI., No. 6, May, 1896 • Various
... given us: safer food for our families, safer toys for our children, safer nursing homes for our parents, safer cars and highways and safer workplaces, cleaner air and cleaner water. Do we need common sense and fairness in our regulations? You bet we do. But we can have common sense and still provide for safe drinking water. We can have fairness and still clean up toxic dumps and we ought ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various
... at anything under a lieutenant, you bet!" seconded Toe String Joe. "She probably won't even ...
— A Man of Two Countries • Alice Harriman
... whether he can ride a 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 ...
— The Lure of the Dim Trails • by (AKA B. M. Sinclair) B. M. Bower
... both sides agree—that's the Funs. They're willin, them chaps in New York, to receive all the Funs you'll send 'em. You send a puss tonight to Mahony, and another puss to Roberts. Both will receive 'em. You bet. And with other pusses ...
— The Complete Works of Artemus Ward, Part 7 • Charles Farrar Browne
... what the others say to you, Nance!" she cried. "I'll stick to you, you bet! And maybe some time we can solve the mystery," she added, in a whisper, "and find out who you are. Then we'll make 'em all sorry they treated you so," for it seemed to be a foregone conclusion with Jennie that ...
— A Little Miss Nobody - Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall • Amy Bell Marlowe
... found ourselves quite 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 can ...
— The Treasure of Heaven - A Romance of Riches • Marie Corelli
... "You bet. It's mostly grist that comes to me: palm-oil, rubber, kernels, and ivory. Timber I haven't got the capital to tackle, and I must say the ivory's more to figure about than finger. But I've got the best connection of any trader ...
— A Master of Fortune • Cutcliffe Hyne
... here? Why, because 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 ...
— Innocent - Her Fancy and His Fact • Marie Corelli
... "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 ...
— Skinner's Dress Suit • Henry Irving Dodge
... with a twinkle in his eye, "I'm no parson, boys, that I should set up to diskiver what's right an' what's wrong. I've got my own notions on them points, you bet, but I'm not goin' to preach 'em. As to smokin', I won't make a smoked herrin' o' my tongue to please anybody. Besides, I don't want to smoke, an' why should I do a thing I don't want to just because other people does it? Why should I make a ...
— Charlie to the Rescue • R.M. Ballantyne
... this 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 I'll ...
— Lahoma • John Breckenridge Ellis
... "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
... of those stones being found together. Anyhow, that deposit, whose wealth was first presented to my inexperienced eyes, covered sixteen acres of ground, and is being worked by a syndicate with a cash capital of two million dollars. Uncle Ezra and I saved a small stake for old age; but you bet I will know a good thing the next time ...
— Elam Storm, The Wolfer - The Lost Nugget • Harry Castlemon
... 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
... same place in order to persuade him to return to Bayswater. That was why Mrs. Clear visited Jersey Street. Oh, Mark played his part there as Mr. Wrent, I guess; there ain't no two questions about that," finished Lydia triumphantly. "He is the assassin, you bet!" ...
— The Silent House • Fergus Hume
... "You bet I do!" was the delighted answer; and within twenty-four hours the soft woolen goods, and the boots, and gloves, and switch of hair, and sundry other articles pertaining to a woman's toilet, were in Daisy's room, ...
— Bessie's Fortune - A Novel • Mary J. Holmes
... "You bet there is!" his daughter seconded him from the favorite low seat that permitted her to rest her mouse-colored ...
— The Treasure • Kathleen Norris
... Bill. You bet I like it! Say, I know that tune! The beggar-kid sings it every time he comes. (Sits up in bed and keeps time with his finger. Chorus begins and he joins in at the top ...
— The Pot Boiler • Upton Sinclair
... "You bet I do." He whistled—a low, birdlike note. In answer, a beautiful, chestnut saddle-horse came out of the chaparral, where it had not been seen by the painter. "We're going, Max," said the officer, in ...
— The Eyes of the World • Harold Bell Wright
... "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. ...
— Ptomaine Street • Carolyn Wells
... garden wall, O sweetest girl of all! Come along do, you'll never regret; We were made for one another, you bet! 'Tis time our lips in kisses met, Over the ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100. February 21, 1891 • Various
... "You bet he didn't," returned young Kerry. "I came here on my own accord, and when I go you're coming with me. I can't make out how you got here, anyway. Do you know whose house ...
— Tales of Chinatown • Sax Rohmer
... "You bet! Now this is the little game. The gal and Logan, and the boy, will get here long first. Well, now, maybe we will go for the gal and the boy. But if we don't, we just lay low till all get sot down, and at that keg ...
— Shadows of Shasta • Joaquin Miller
... "You bet it is," returned the other. "There aint no better in Boyd City, an' I reckon I know. Ye must be goin' to get a ...
— That Printer of Udell's • Harold Bell Wright
... '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
... "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
... beyond where the last sentry woulder seen him. It was cold as git out. Jus' the same kind o' early cold as to-night, an' John's teeth was chatterin' like peas in a box—he was some loco with skeer, too, you bet. ...
— Humorous Ghost Stories • Dorothy Scarborough
... "You bet I'll hold you to it! Rammy here, and you and I could trade the chosen people off the map between us. We're a combination. What's time got to ...
— Affair in Araby • Talbot Mundy
... chap I ever seed. But he a'n't no singin'-master—not of I'm any jedge of turnips. He warn't born to sarve his day and generation with a tunin'-fork. I think he's a-goin' to reckon-water a little in these parts and that he's only a-playin' singin'-master. He kin play more fiddles'n one, you bet a hoss! Says he come up here fer his wholesome, and I guess he did. Think ef he'd a-staid where he was, he mout a-suffered a leetle from confinement to his room, and that room p'raps not more nor five foot by nine, and ruther dim-lighted ...
— The End Of The World - A Love Story • Edward Eggleston
... "You bet it wasn't my fault!" said the boy, vigorously. "I was sore's a pup at you, after you'd made a date and all, to do like that; but I thought if you wanted to go with that guy it was up ...
— A Voice in the Wilderness • Grace Livingston Hill
... "You bet! Finzer and I went over there the day before you left the hospital. The Boches have no notion that our side is doing anything here, except air-raiding in No-Man's-Land or using our planes. That is one reason the headquarters ...
— Our Pilots in the Air • Captain William B. Perry
... 'em guessing," said Mollie slangily, as she turned on power and challenged a steep grade. "Grace and I believe in scattering our favors—as 'twere. See that hill just ahead of us? What do you bet I ...
— The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge - or, The Hermit of Moonlight Falls • Laura Lee Hope
... "You bet it is!" agreed Tommy enthusiastically, "and I'm in favor of making it good and snappy." He completed his toilet as rapidly as possible and then turned ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 • Various
... 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 about! They are seldom satisfied unless their wrists and elbows are bally ...
— King—of the Khyber Rifles • Talbot Mundy
... will you bet? You'll surely lose your wager! If you will give me leave henceforth, To lead him softly on, like ...
— Faust • Goethe
... "You bet she has. The fool-killer ought to lay around here for a while. There were two dandy blokes come out of ...
— Jim Cummings • Frank Pinkerton
... "You bet! But let it stir. I like that parson of yours; he's a trump. And I always liked her, although, generally speaking, I don't love Come-Outers. And I like her more than ever now, when she risked what she thought was smallpox to care for him. As I said, she saved ...
— Keziah Coffin • Joseph C. Lincoln
... "Local? You bet he's local. Too darned local for me. It would do that man good to live in New York for a year. But I'm going to get even with him. I'm going to write him up. I'll give him a column and a half; see if I don't. I'll get his photograph, and publish a newspaper ...
— In the Midst of Alarms • Robert Barr
... got no mother. An' I always hooks jack. I'm licked reg'lar when I gets back, anyway. There's half a dozen of 'em. When 'tain't one, it's another. That's Jane Goffey's bread; she's been a swearin' after it this hour, you bet. But I'll come,—see if ...
— Real Folks • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney
... all my heart. I wondered at the changed look you wear. Why, boy, you've got a different front.... Call the lady in, and you bet I'll look her over right. I can ...
— Desert Gold • Zane Grey
... fought in the late war, yer see, plenty of 'um, an' you bet they don't carry no bokays ...
— Stories by American Authors, Volume 6 • Various
... "You bet you don't!" I comes back. "You'll never see Alex playin' no game where they's a chance of the other guy winnin'! He wouldn't bet zero was cold! And don't be callin' my friends loafers—every one of them guys is successful ...
— Alex the Great • H. C. Witwer
... jolly self-conscious while they're doing it, ... as if they didn't half like it. You bet, they take it out of their womenfolk when they get home. Look at that ...
— Home Life in Germany • Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick
... been tame, even when walking the pavement and cracking jokes and standing drinks to chums—ay, and to strangers, too. I would watch them lifting their elbows at my expense, or splitting their side at my fun—I can be funny when I like, you bet!" ...
— Victory • Joseph Conrad
... "You bet! I'm some artist, too. A lady I was figurin' on acceptin' a invite to dinner with, once,—one of them rich kind that always wants to get their money's worth out of anything they do for a poor guy,—happened to come out on the back steps where I was holdin' kind of a ...
— Overland Red - A Romance of the Moonstone Canon Trail • Henry Herbert Knibbs
... the bar, so we did purty well. It wasn't necessary to work any longer at that bogus placer. Evenin's we sat around outside and swapped yarns, and I bragged on my chickens. The chickens would gather round close to listen. They liked to hear their praises sung, all right. You bet they sabe! The only reason a chicken, or any other critter, isn't intelligent is because he hasn't no chance ...
— The Boy Scouts Book of Stories • Various
... "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
... account o' them books that he's made the front o' his house into what it is. My wife had a paper book wunst, a-tellin' 'How to Transfer a Hopeless Exterior,' with pictures of houses in it like they be here an' more arter they'd been transferred. You bet I burnt it while she was gone to sewin' circle, an' there ain't no book come ...
— At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern • Myrtle Reed |
