facer

Example Sentences

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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

This was rather a facer, and I felt angry with Jim!

From The Red Symbol by Ironside, John

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

That was a facer, and when I went back and told the others, opinions were divided as to what to do.

From The Outspan Tales of South Africa by Fitzpatrick, Percy, Sir

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 Hope, Anthony