facer

Example Sentences

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Then you must put a plucky face on it; she mustn't see you cave in after the first facer.

From At Large by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)

It’s a facer, but nothing need come of it.”

From The Red Derelict by Mitford, Bertram

But he had not expected the spider to give him such a facer as this.

From '?19,000' by Delannoy, Burford

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 Dixon, Maynard

It's a bit of a facer for me—I tell you that straight—but it don't seem unnatural in you.

From Second String by Hope, Anthony