facer
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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
But he had not expected the spider to give him such a facer as this.
From '?19,000' by Burford Delannoy
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
How one admires a woman who takes an unexpected facer without making a scene!
From The Little Vanities of Mrs. Whittaker A Novel by John Strange Winter
This was rather a facer, and I felt angry with Jim!
From The Red Symbol by John Ironside
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
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
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