facer
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Here was a facer for Mr. Lightfoot, and Jefferson Creede, to whom all eyes were turned in the crisis, smiled maliciously and let him sweat.
From Hidden Water by Maynard Dixon
This was a facer, and I knew not what to say, until by a happy thought I suggested that he should consult my aunt Susan, with whom he was a prime favourite.
From Palm Tree Island by Herbert Strang
Here Sir Charles threw in something which he felt to be in the nature of a facer.
From Cleek of Scotland Yard Detective Stories by Thomas W. Hanshew
Well, that’s a facer, certainly, Sir Charles; but with such a past-mistress of ingenuity as she—well, you never know.
From Cleek of Scotland Yard Detective Stories by Thomas W. Hanshew
That was a facer, and when I went back and told the others, opinions were divided as to what to do.
From The Outspan Tales of South Africa by Sir Percy Fitzpatrick
Howsomnever, they didn’t come to facers, only passed a little jaw fore and aft.”
From The Pioneers by James Fenimore Cooper
The Macgillicuddies support the Seceding interest, and deliver facers in the teeth of all establishments whatsoever.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various
It is claimed that these facers constitute the best possible protection against fire.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various
“I am not going to cry ‘I take a licking!’ because Fortune has caught me a couple of facers without a return.
From For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War by Walter Paget
