What is "botham"

Usage examples of "botham".

Far from demanding an explanation of her presence, or ignoring her altogether, Mr and Mrs Botham appealed constantly to Mary for corroboration and support in their cheerful denunciations of their daughter.

When they came down the stairs Mr Botham was already standing by the front door, his arms folded.

A half-hearted scuffle took place, and Mrs Botham limped down the passage to make her scandalized contribution.

Mr Botham vowed that Sharon would not go through that door unless she stepped over his dead body.

Watched and smiled at by Mary, Mrs Botham limped back to her seather inviolable armchair, wedged into the corner by the fire with toy flames.

Mr Botham, who as usual had been sitting in cheerful silence at the table.

When Mrs Botham was talking to you, you just looked her way without really listening.

Mrs Botham would lollop into the kitchen and shut the door behind her.

At half-past nine Mrs Botham would emerge in processional triumph, bearing the small metropolis on her tray: the twin stacks of toast woozy with butter, the boiling pink tea so powerful that it made the mouth cry, the fanned brown biscuits like the sleeping dogs on the tin from which they came.

According to Gavin, Mrs Botham always got drunk again while she was in the kitchen alone.

She was very grateful to Mrs Botham for everything she had done in making her so welcome here.

Mrs Botham is in fact alone in her conviction that Mary is an amnesiachence her constant spearheading of this unpopular view.

Mr Botham, finally, and for various potent reasons of his own, is secretly under the apprehension that Mary is quite normal in every respect.

The answer is that Mr Botham himself has been an alcoholic for twenty-nine of them.

By watching Mr Botham, who did it often and expressively, she learned to blow her nose.