fac's

It's as fac's ocht, it was eneuch to fleg the French.

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

We'll hae to get oor brakfast frae the Toon Cooncil by an 'by, an' it'll a 'go on the rates, that's juist as fac's ocht.

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

Wot furder elimination ob de fac's does dem folks want?

On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake Roy Rockwood

Smith; an 'Bandy nodded his heid an' leuch, an 'says, "Man, Sandy's a perfeck genius as fac's ocht, I hinna heard onything like him."

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

They were that terriple wyze, that, as fac's ocht, mind you, they near drave some o 'the rest o's daft.

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

It's the waiting to hear news -- to get the exact fac's -- that is going to be hardest.

The Mission of Janice Day Helen Beecher Long

Dat is ma final ratification ob de pre-eminent fac's.

On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake Roy Rockwood

"I mind aboot you haiverin 'awa' some nonsense o 'that kind," says I; an ', as fac's ocht, I cud hardly haud frae lauchin' at the droll look on Sandy's face.

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

For that's the way, Mr. Cromarty, to get at the fac's; you just exclude what's not possible and what remains is the truth.

Simon 1907

"We hed the fac's agin him, -- dead agin him," chimed in Jim Dow.

The Young Mountaineers Short Stories Mary Noailles Murfree 1886