You were so gauche, so ignorant, so violent, so confident one moment, so plunged into despair the next.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
He waited and observed the guilt-ridden countenance and the gauche retreat from the offensive.
"Corpus of a Siam Mosquito"
Steven Sills
He looked gauche and foolish and he worked around them trying not to get into much contact.
"Corpus of a Siam Mosquito"
Steven Sills