Sentence:  Passing through St. George's Square, Lupus Street, Chichester Street, he scarcely saw a soul; then, quite suddenly, he struck a dense crowd, kept back by the police, standing <WSD>gorming</WSD> at a great jagged hole in a high blank wall, a glimpse, the merest glimpse of more broken walls, shattered chimneys. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To gawk; to stare or gape.