“Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.”

“I only know two kinds of audiences - one coughing, and one not coughing.”

“Then the boy made a small cough, and then coughed deeper, and again, and then vomited some salt water. Oh God, thank you!”

“I don't know when I've experienced a more massive silence than the one that followed my reading of his cheery epistle. Young Bingo gulped once or twice and practically every known emotion came and went on his face. Jeeves coughed one soft, low, gentle cough like a sheep with a blade of grass stuck in its throat, and then stood gazing serenely at the landscape.”

“Good! And what if you should happen to cough or to sneeze?" "A man who is making his escape does not cough or sneeze.”

“It was one of those parties where you cough twice before you speak and then decide not to say it after all.”