facer
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Before he could recover this little facer, she said, quietly, "What is your name?"
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 by Various
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
After this facer Browne did not know quite what to say.
From The Red Rat's Daughter by Guy Boothby
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
Then you must put a plucky face on it; she mustn't see you cave in after the first facer.
From At Large by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
“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
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