gaze
verb (used without object)
to look steadily and intently, as with great curiosity, interest, pleasure, or wonder.
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Sherburn run his eye slow along the crowd; and wherever it struck the people tried a little to outgaze him, but they couldn't; they dropped their eyes and looked sneaky.
From The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer's Comrade by Mark Twain