Joe might have asked more questions, except that at that precise moment, someone coughed delicately behind him.

He went up to the two detectives and coughed delicately.

When they showed no sign of moving, he coughed delicately.

Merana coughed delicately, and spoke softly into the hand she used to cover it.

After a time Muishiph consulted his watch again and coughed delicately.

He sat rigid for a moment, then coughed delicately into his fist, and set the drink down.

A few carriages away, one of the other quadros coughed delicately.

The blue-haired man lifted a hand to his mouth and coughed delicately behind it.

The admiral coughed delicately, clearly a social cough, a punctuation in what she said.

He coughed delicately and looked up at the stars.