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Otway

[ ot-wey ]

noun

  1. Thomas, 1652–85, English dramatist.


Otway

/ ˈɒtweɪ /

noun

  1. OtwayThomas16521685MEnglishTHEATRE: dramatist Thomas. 1652–85, English dramatist, noted for The Orphan (1680) and Venice Preserv'd (1682)


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The ambassador nodded and then quickly, "Give him a drink, Otway."

It was, at all events, a weakness to be hid except from that very best of all her "best friends," Julia Otway.

Mrs. Otway's own daughter had been so oppressed by the enormity of the secret, that she had told her mother.

As they passed through the parlor they noticed a group about a portrait of Mrs. Otway, taken in her youth.

Certainly up to the finest things in Otway, if not of Shakspeare himself—a power, a life, an impetus.

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