He thought how he himself had been like one of those oafs, living in a cottage not so many miles from this spot.
"The Devil's Garden"
W. B. Maxwell
As I gave Raffles a headlong lead to the baize door, I glanced down the great well of stairs, and up came the daft yells of these sporting oafs: "Gone away-gone away!"
"A Thief in the Night"
E. W. Hornung
And each year since then the emperor of Rome had paid tribute to a nation of mongrel oafs.
"Imperial Purple"
Edgar Saltus