facer

Example Sentences

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After this facer Browne did not know quite what to say.

From The Red Rat's Daughter by Boothby, Guy

There," he said, as he took a ladleful o' broth and began to cool it deliberately, "that's the most scientific facer I ever planted on a man's forehead in my life.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.

Ordinarily, anybody who had stopped Howell Gruffydd in the street and had asked him a Council secret would have been met with the smiling facer he deserved, but this was extraordinary altogether.

From Mushroom Town by Onions, Oliver

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

From '?19,000' by Delannoy, Burford

"Quite a facer for my anticipations," Lucinda interposed firmly—"considering the way I had to fly Chicago and my husband."

From Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel by Vance, Louis Joseph