ahem'-ing

Updated: May 14, 2025

"Three cheers now, my lads!" he called out at the end of his harangue, which was interspersed with a lot of `ahem'-ing and `haw'-ing, `old Hankey Pankey' not being much of a speaker "three cheers for the old flag that has never been licked yet in the long-run!"

John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson - Young Tom Bowling: The Boys of the British Navy