1595, (w), (w), Act II, Scene 2, https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Third_Part_of_King_Henry_the_Sixth
I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; / I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk;
1596, (w), (w), Book V, edited by Abraham Stoll, Indianapolis: Hackett, 2006, Canto Eight, stanza 38, p. 113,
Like lightening flash, that hath the gazer burned, / So did the sight thereof their sense dismay, / That backe againe upon themselves they turned, / And with their ryder ranne perforce away:
Knots of gazers and gossips were collected in the churchyard, at the bridge, and at the spot where the hat and pumpkin had been found.
1854, (w), (w), New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1910, pp. 86-7, https://archive.org/details/walden01thor
I would observe, by the way, that it costs me nothing for curtains, for I have no gazers to shut out but the sun and moon, and I am willing that they should look in.
1914, (w), The Art of Spiritual Harmony, translated by M.T.H. Sadler, Houghton Mifflin, Chapter V, p. 49, https://archive.org/details/artofspiritualha00kandrich
Keen lemon-yellow hurts the eye in time as a prolonged and shrill trumpet-note the ear, and the gazer turns away to seek relief in blue or green.