facer
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The question of what is Medical Corps and what is Red Cross has always been a facer for the superficial historian.
From Our Army at the Front by Heywood Broun
Yes," he continued, "what I call a regular facer for me.
From The Riddle of the Night by Thomas W. Hanshew
It was the worst kind of a facer.
From The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel by Guy Wetmore Carryl
This to her daughter, who sauntered in just in time to receive the facer and gasp: "Why, mother, what do you mean?"
From What Will People Say? A novel by Rupert Hughes
"Quite a facer for my anticipations," Lucinda interposed firmly—"considering the way I had to fly Chicago and my husband."
From Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel by Louis Joseph Vance
“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
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
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
