"Gawk" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... buffoon, jester, merry-andrew, zany, harlequin, droll, punch, mime, farceur, scaramouch, grimacier jackpudding; boor, lout, gawk, gawky, lubber, put, bumpkin, churl, carl, tike; ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming
... second invitation. In she went, slamming the door after her so that those who gawked at the bunk-house entrance might gawk in vain. ...
— Man to Man • Jackson Gregory
... your plans. I understand your position exactly. You're at a disadvantage," he changed his pace suddenly, stopping Bradley. "Now, Talcott, you're at a disadvantage with that suit. It makes you look like a gawk, when you're not. You're a stalwart fellow, and if you'll invest in a new suit of clothes as Jennings did, it'll make all the difference in ...
— A Spoil of Office - A Story of the Modern West • Hamlin Garland
... invitation. In she went, slamming the door after her so that those who gawked at the bunk-house entrance might gawk in vain. ...
— Man to Man • Jackson Gregory
... did not see my meeting with uncle," he thought. "I was always a gawk in society, and to-night seem possessed with the very genius of awkwardness. She is the only one who has shown me any real kindness, and I don't want her to think of me only ...
— From Jest to Earnest • E. P. Roe
... room brushing and curling my hair, and was ready to curtsey to everybody. Now I'm quite at home, for I've plenty of courage—except about death, and I'm worse about death than I was when I was a simple body with a gawk's "lawks!" in her round eyes and mouth for an egg. I wonder why that is? But isn't death horrible? And skeletons!' The ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... 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 ...
— From Farm to Fortune - or Nat Nason's Strange Experience • Horatio Alger Jr.
... was 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 |
