facer
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This was a facer for Tom, but all he asked was how much money there was.
From Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas by Lloyd Osbourne
This was rather a facer, and I felt angry with Jim!
From The Red Symbol by John Ironside
To tell you the truth, Patricia, the news was rather a facer, don't you know; for my first impulse was to believe it.
From The Last Woman by Ross Beeckman
It’s a facer, but nothing need come of it.”
From The Red Derelict by Bertram Mitford
This was a facer for the girl, and Bones glared his triumph.
From Bones in London by Edgar Wallace
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
“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
