"Gawk" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... having no one to hang over us, or gawk amorously up at us, are sitting in a row in our pew. Bobby has garlanded Tou Tou preposterously with laurel, to give us an idea, as he says, of how he himself will look by-and-by, after some future Trafalgar. Now, he is whispering to me—a whisper accompanied by one ...
— Nancy - A Novel • Rhoda Broughton
... gawk of a fellow stepped between us just at the critical moment, and shut off my view. But I heard enough that evening from the clerk and servants, of the agitation he had shown on receiving it, to convince me I was upon a trail worth following. I accordingly ...
— The Leavenworth Case • Anna Katharine Green
... my eagerness to learn from books, that I had given no thought to people. Madison, my first town, showed me that my clothes were homemade and tacky. Other girls wore store shoes and what seemed to me beautifully made dresses. I was a backwoods gawk. I hated ...
— The Log-Cabin Lady, An Anonymous Autobiography • Unknown
... to her son, a tall gawk of a boy, "I want you to go to Mr. Abner Balberry's house, and ask him if he will stop in and see me the first time he comes ...
— From Farm to Fortune - or Nat Nason's Strange Experience • Horatio Alger Jr.
... a smile flickered across Lucy's lips as she hurried on without his answer. Hiram was a big man, ruggedly handsome. It pleased Lucy's vanity to have him gawk at ...
— The She Boss - A Western Story • Arthur Preston Hankins
... Kinzer was growing hourly. Here was this overgrown gawk of a green country boy, just out of his roundabouts, who had never spent more than a day at a time in the great city, and never lived in any kind of a boarding-house; in fact, here was a fellow who had had no advantages whatever,—coming out as a ...
— Dab Kinzer - A Story of a Growing Boy • William O. Stoddard
... domestic picture!" she broke out. "I fear I intrude, Margaret dear, but I'm going to stay. The girl is bringing up the tea, and I'm positively dying for a cup and a sit-down. Of course this"—turning gaily round on me, standing there like a great gawk, volubly cursing my shirt-sleeves under my breath—"is the incomparable Oliver! Charmed to meet ...
— The Yeoman Adventurer • George W. Gough |
