"Aw, those damned gawks!
"The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land"
Ralph Connor
No taime to stand here like girt gawks.
"Lorna Doone, A Romance of Exmoor"
R. D. Blackmore
The next instant one of the soldiers snatched him rudely away, and sent him spinning among the gaping crowd of country gawks and London idlers.
"The Prince and The Pauper, Part 1."
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)