facer

Example Sentences

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To tell you the truth, Patricia, the news was rather a facer, don't you know; for my first impulse was to believe it.

From The Last Woman by Beeckman, Ross

It was clear that he had had an awful facer.

From The Sailor by Snaith, J. C.

This was a facer for the girl, and Bones glared his triumph.

From Bones in London by Wallace, Edgar

A dinner party of ten with ladies was rather a facer for Mr. Henry Harper, in spite of the fact that his social laurels were clustering thicker upon him.

From The Sailor by Snaith, J. C.

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