facer
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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
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
"It's a bit of a facer," Copley muttered.
From Hard Pressed by Fred M. (Fred Merrick) White
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
Ordinarily, anybody who had stopped Howell Gruffydd in the street and had asked him a Council secret would have been met with the smiling facer he deserved, but this was extraordinary altogether.
From Mushroom Town by Oliver Onions
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
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
Howsomnever, they didn’t come to facers, only passed a little jaw fore and aft.”
From The Pioneers by James Fenimore Cooper
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