gaping crowd

There he opened the safe in full view of the gaping crowds.

She observed: "It would be as well if some of that gaping crowd cleared off.

Night falls; the gaping crowds abide No longer by her stiffening side.

Anyone who was tidily dressed could come to watch the King eat, but the gaping crowds did nothing to damp his celebrated appetite.

"When Ay think of the noisy gaping crowds.

He said he wanted no gaping crowds following him across the desert to behold his immersion in the trench.

Again Sojan was forced further back towards the gaping crowd which had collected outside the tavern.

Probably surrounded by gaping crowds.

The gaping crowd, who had followed the incident with delight, began to cheer: Hip, hip, hooray!

It has been many years since / last stood before a hushed and gaping crowd, guessing at the contents of a lady's purse.'

A few spectators came near, drawn by the seemingly conferring group, then more and more, and quickly there was a pushing, gaping crowd.

The effects unfolded with enough whooshing energy that the Vesuvian spectacle drew applause from the gaping crowds.

The gaping crowd parted reluctantly and Ronin saw two daggam push their way towards him.

"I have ordered you" She was raging now, as angry as he was, their booming voices godlike over the gaping crowd.

Gaping crowds stood in front of my cage, many of them poking sticks at me or throwing pebbles or bits of food.

Let us not think too lightly of the humble five-cent theatre with its gaping crowd following with breathless interest the vicissitudes of the beautiful heroine.

He shoved the bandit's struggling body into the alley, away from the gaping crowd, which alternately cheered and threatened to come forward and capture "the Angel."

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.

And the Hunting instinct - An image formed in his mind of jumping onto the court, of taking the players down one at a time before the gaping crowd.

'Now,' she addressed the gaping crowd, 'as I was saying, I'd like you all to respect Mrs Ash's privacy and kindly disperse from in front of her house.

There was a rude board coffin on a cart at the door, and workmen, assisted by the police, were thinning a road through the gaping crowd in order that they might bring it in.

The gaping crowd parted as paramedics bumped down the steps with the stretchers, then slid the two body bags into the open maw at the back of the EMS van.

In the book, Kristine recalled the day that she and the skeletal survivors, with bare, abraded feet and sore-covered bodies, blindly stumbled out into the sunlight and stares of a gaping crowd.

Taxes on the very necessaries of life, enable an endless tribe of idle princes and princesses to pass with stupid pomp before a gaping crowd, who almost worship the very parade which costs them so dear.

In his series "Erased Lynchings" (2004-2006) Ken Gonzales-Day digitally manipulates historic images that document Mexican and Mexican-American lynchings, and erases the victims, leaving only a gaping crowd and haunted tree.