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

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

From The Red Rat's Daughter by Boothby, Guy

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

Then you must put a plucky face on it; she mustn't see you cave in after the first facer.

From At Large by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)

Well, that’s a facer, certainly, Sir Charles; but with such a past-mistress of ingenuity as she—well, you never know.

From Cleek of Scotland Yard Detective Stories by Hanshew, Thomas W.