facer
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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
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 a facer, and partly accounted for the secret contempt in which the sorcerers were held by many in the nation.
From In the Whirl of the Rising by Bertram Mitford
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 J. C. Snaith
After this facer Browne did not know quite what to say.
From The Red Rat's Daughter by Guy Boothby
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
“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
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
