facer

Example Sentences

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After this facer Browne did not know quite what to say.

From The Red Rat's Daughter by Boothby, Guy

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 Dixon, Maynard

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 Strang, Herbert

Well, that’s a facer, certainly, Sir Charles; but with such a past-mistress of ingenuity as she—well, you never know.

From Cleek of Scotland Yard Detective Stories by Hanshew, Thomas W.

A dinner party of ten with ladies was rather a facer for Mr. Henry Harper, in spite of the fact that his social laurels were clustering thicker upon him.

From The Sailor by Snaith, J. C.