On the other side of the door, a man was coughing.
The old man in the hospital bed was coughing all night.
The man in front of her coughed and went down.
At that moment, the man coughed and seemed to come around.
Both men were coughing as they opened the back door and pulled a third man from the seat.
The third man coughed both to clear his lungs and to get attention.
If a man in the back, a half mile away, had coughed, he would have heard it.
The man coughed some more, but it was diminishing now.
The man with his hand on the girl's shoulder coughed, and looked embarrassed.
It came loose with a noise like old men coughing.