"Facer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and spirit, hitting savagely himself, but taking punishment like a man. He knows and never forgets that people talk, first of all, for the sake of talking; conducts himself in the ring, to use the old slang, like a thorough "glutton,"[19] and honestly enjoys a telling facer from his adversary. Cockshot is bottled effervescency, the sworn foe of sleep. Three-in-the-morning Cockshot, says a victim. His talk is like the driest of all imaginable dry champagnes. Sleight of hand and inimitable quickness are the qualities ...
— Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson • Robert Louis Stevenson
... said the other, slapping him upon the shoulder. 'I've had a nasty facer myself, but—' That was all I could hear, but it was enough to ...
— The Sign of the Four • Arthur Conan Doyle
... long time ago, and she's as much mine as she is yours. So, what's the odds now? It's a facer, I'll admit, but it can't be helped." It was thus that the man whose anger, only a few hours before had led him almost to crime, now readily absolved ...
— Jane Cable • George Barr McCutcheon
... facer, eh?" he went on. "But it didn't down me. It only woke me up. 'Have you ever had a man sit down with you beside him and hold you so,' I asked her, 'with your back to his knees, your head in his hands and his eyes and his mouth close to yours—a man that ...
— Through stained glass • George Agnew Chamberlain
... said, at the same time experiencing a feeling of fright at the prospect that was tangled with a contradictory feeling of charm, "either I'll fall in love with you, or you with me. Propinquity is dangerous, you know. In fact, it is propinquity that usually gives the facer to the ...
— Adventure • Jack London
... problem was this: why was I breaking my neck to get to her before Blatchford had time to deliver my response to her appealing little note? It was something of a facer, and it set me to wondering. Why was I so eager? Could it be possible that there was anything in the speculation of my servants? I recalled the sensation of supreme delight that shot through me when I received her note, but ...
— A Fool and His Money • George Barr McCutcheon
... bit of a facer over this. But you needn't be frightened. You're safe enough from that damned Italian anyway. And you'll find me a better refuge than he ...
— Charles Rex • Ethel M. Dell
... was a kind girl. She's trying to pull old Charlie up a peg or two. He's had the deuce of a facer, you know." ...
— Comedies of Courtship • Anthony Hope
... 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 ...
— History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella V1 • William H. Prescott
... not be a simpler question, nor one put more carelessly; but it was rather a "facer" to Mr. Fullarton, who dealt in generalities as a rule, and objected to being brought to book about particulars—considering, indeed, such a line of argument as indicative of a caviling and ...
— Sword and Gown - A Novel • George A. Lawrence
... Peg," he said. "I can't deny it's a facer. When I walked out of that doctor's room I felt as weak as a child. The shock knocked the strength out of me. I had never thought of anything else but being a soldier, you see, and it's a strange experience to have to face life afresh, with everything that you had expected taken out of it, and ...
— About Peggy Saville • Mrs. G. de Horne Vaizey
... if I 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
... to execution. I trust I may shed a good deal of ink in the next fortnight." Then, the day following, on arrival of my letter, he submitted to a hard necessity. "I received yours to-day. A decided facer to me! I had been counting, alas! with a miser's greed, upon the gained ten pages. . . . No matter. I have no doubt you are right, and strength is everything. The addition of two lines to each page, or something less,—coupled with ...
— The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete • John Forster
... a talk with him just now," said Lorry, with a reflective smile. "She asked him point blank if he knew who she was. He did not hesitate a second. 'I remember seeing you in the audience chamber recently.' That was a facer for Yetive. 'I assure you that it was no fault of mine that you saw me,' she replied. 'Then it must have been your friend who rustled the curtains?' said the confounded bluffer. Yetive couldn't keep a straight face. She laughed and then he laughed. 'Some day ...
— Beverly of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon |
