What is "otway"

Usage examples of "otway".

There are the Warburtons and the Mannings -- and you’re related to the Otways, aren’t you?

The Alardyces, the Hilberys, the Millingtons, and the Otways seem to prove that intellect is a possession which can be tossed from one member of a certain group to another almost indefinitely, and with apparent certainty that the brilliant gift will be safely caught and held by nine out of ten of the privileged race.

But then Lady Otway was one of the people for whom the great make-believe game of English social life has been invented.

She had more than once played the part of ambassador between Lady Otway and her children.

Lady Otway sighed, it may be at the faded relics, and turned, with resignation, to her balls of wool, which, curiously and characteristically, were not an ivory-white, but rather a tarnished yellow-white.

She had always trusted her, and now more than ever, since her engagement to Rodney, which seemed to Lady Otway extremely suitable, and just what one would wish for one’s own daughter.

Lady Otway slipped in quickly, in rather a low voice, as if she wanted to get this said while her sister-in-law’s attention was diverted.

Lady Otway, strange though it seemed, guessed more accurately at Katharine’s state of mind than her mother did.

Having replaced her ring, Lady Otway remarked that it was chilly, though not more so than one must expect at this time of year.

Lady Otway stood on the topmost step, wrapped in a white shawl, and waved her hand almost mechanically until they had turned the corner under the laurel-bushes, when she retired indoors with a sense that she had played her part, and a sigh at the thought that none of her children felt it necessary to play theirs.

She half smiled at Ralph, but her look was a little overcast by something she was thinking, and in a very few minutes the Otway carriage rolled out of the stable yard and turned down the high road leading to the village of Lampsher.

In his own mind Ralph was following the passage of the Otway carriage over the heath.

Her cousin, Cassandra Otway, for example, had a very fine taste in music, and he had charming recollections of her in a light fantastic attitude, playing the flute in the morning-room at Stogdon House.

He recalled with pleasure the amusing way in which her nose, long like all the Otway noses, seemed to extend itself into the flute, as if she were some inimitably graceful species of musical mole.

Cassandra is the most interesting of the Otways -- with the exception of Henry.