"Facer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Pulgar, "a facer justicia, tanto que le era imputado seguir mas la via de rigor que de la piedad; y esto facia por remediar a la gran corrupcion de crimines que fallo en el Reyno quando subcedio en el." Reyes Catolicos, ...
— History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella V1 • William H. Prescott
... "This was a facer. I looked at Daisy Holroyd. She bit her lip and fixed her eyes on the sea. Her eyes ...
— In Search of the Unknown • Robert W. Chambers
... for a short time even Oswald did not know. It was a blood-curdling event, a regular facer. Albert's uncle had gone to London that day to stay till the next. ...
— The Wouldbegoods • E. Nesbit
... very much to him as though this sudden turn of circumstances was "a facer". If Mrs. Atterson had to sell the farm he was likely to be thrown on ...
— Hiram The Young Farmer • Burbank L. Todd
... saw that men must find the unaccountable corpse; must extract the unaccountable sword-point; must notice the unaccountable broken sword—or absence of sword. He had killed, but not silenced. But his imperious intellect rose against the facer; there was one way yet. He could make the corpse less unaccountable. He could create a hill of corpses to cover this one. In twenty minutes eight hundred English soldiers were marching down ...
— The Innocence of Father Brown • G. K. Chesterton
... and forty-seven pounds was a facer. I was forced to admit to myself that I was fat, disgustingly fat—too fat; and that I should get fatter! So I sat down and looked the situation in the eye. I recounted all my former efforts to get thin and discarded them one by one. I knew myself, and knew the ordinary diet proposition ...
— The Fun of Getting Thin • Samuel G. Blythe
... arms, and in a moment Flanagan, who walked a little in advance of her, with his head bent down, that he might not be put to the necessity of speaking loud, suddenly received, right upon his nose, such an incredible facer as made the blood spin a yard ...
— Fardorougha, The Miser - The Works of William Carleton, Volume One • William Carleton
... bushy end of Yarrow's tail into his ample mouth, and bit it with all his might. This was more than enough for the much-enduring, much-perspiring shepherd, who, with a gleam of joy over his broad visage, delivered a terrific facer upon our large, vague, benevolent, middle-aged friend—who went down like ...
— Famous Stories Every Child Should Know • Various
... acquaintances but those I value. My friends stick by me. If I was to get in with these literary and scientific people I should hate them and they me. I should fritter away my time and my freedom without getting a quid pro quo: as it is, I am free and I give the swells every now and then such a facer as they get from no one else. Of course I don't expect to get on in a commercial sense at present, I do not go the right way to work for this; but I am going the right way to secure a lasting reputation and this is what I do care for. A man cannot ...
— The Note-Books of Samuel Butler • Samuel Butler
... and I got, not in spite of, but by the rows, a name and a standing with many a one who would never have heard of me otherwise, and I should have been a stercoraceous mendicant if I had hollowed when I got a facer, while I was winning by the cross, though I didn't mean to fight one. No. And if I'd had L100,000, I'd have, and should have, staked and lost it all in 1848-50. I should, Tom, for my heart was and is in it, and you'll see it ...
— Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet • Rev. Charles Kingsley et al
... facer. All had to admit its truth, and the four girls looked from one to another and then at Mr. Forbes. ...
— Two Little Women on a Holiday • Carolyn Wells
... should never be able to write anything again," Eric sighed. "This is the second—facer I've had. There was a novel I started. . . . I'm used ...
— The Education of Eric Lane • Stephen McKenna |
