facer
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But he had not expected the spider to give him such a facer as this.
From '?19,000' by Burford Delannoy
It was a facer for us and, 'pon my word, I don't see how they did it.
From The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler
After this facer Browne did not know quite what to say.
From The Red Rat's Daughter by Guy Boothby
It's a bit of a facer for me—I tell you that straight—but it don't seem unnatural in you.
From Second String by Anthony Hope
“It’s rather a facer to have you turn out to be a married woman.”
From What's-His-Name by Harrison Fisher
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
Howsomnever, they didn’t come to facers, only passed a little jaw fore and aft.”
From The Pioneers by James Fenimore Cooper
“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
