facer
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How one admires a woman who takes an unexpected facer without making a scene!
From The Little Vanities of Mrs. Whittaker A Novel by John Strange Winter
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 rather a facer, and I felt angry with Jim!
From The Red Symbol by John Ironside
Rough on him, and rough on the Foltlebarres, and a facer for Lessie ... and what price the girl?'
From The Dop Doctor by Richard Dehan
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
“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
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
