facer

Example Sentences

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The question of what is Medical Corps and what is Red Cross has always been a facer for the superficial historian.

From Our Army at the Front by Broun, Heywood

If you want to make up for givin' me this bit of—of a facer, as I say, I'll tell you what you can do.

From Second String by Hope, Anthony

But he had not expected the spider to give him such a facer as this.

From '?19,000' by Delannoy, Burford

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 Hughes, Rupert

“It’s rather a facer to have you turn out to be a married woman.”

From What's-His-Name by Fisher, Harrison