astare

One stiff blind horse, his every bone a-stare, / Stood stupefied,

1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, in Men and Women, volume 1, London: Chapman and Hall, page 140

A flashlight: Hugh Barton and his bride limply astare—frightened;

1929, Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel, London: Heinemann, Part 2, Chapter 27

[…] the Man of the House and his wife greeted us, their children astare with wondering eyes.

1968, Austin Clarke, chapter 19, in A Penny in the Clouds, Dublin: Moytura Press, published 1990, page 151