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Usage examples of ahem.

They will be ever eager to, ahem, serve your needs as well as those of the princess.

There will be times, increasingly frequent, when she is physically unable to effect her own, ahem, necessary functions.

I make no complaint about the, ahem, already damaged state of the goods in question.

If the, ahem, ladies call again, tell them that I am out of town for a few days.

How she and Jonathan would laugh at his predicament with the four, ahem, ladies all arriving at the same moment, but they would then give him the benefit of their advice.

I should esteem it, ahem, a privilege to give you a line myself to the Intelligencer people.

The blue lines represent the author of, ahem, The Ology, the yellow lines is the optimum path for the author of The Origin, and the green line represent slippage between futures.

In the er western regions, for example, the uh so-called Uighur and the ahem Uzbek, Kirghiz, Kazhak and er Tazhik.

As you have remarked, my talents tended more to the, ahem, acquisitive and the annunciatory.

Ahem, lass, the tomes I needed aren't here, so we're going to have to go back in time and get them?