Throat-clearing, preparatory defrogging of the throat, may itself be isolated as a marker of the public speaker, or the speaker on the verge of saying something rather difficult (preparing the voice box and dealing pre-emptively with nervousness).

[H]istorians have turned from the past to the future, concerned with what will happen to their professional calling in the decades and centuries to come, fearful that in this age of instant communication and gratification, when an era as recent as the sixties can seem to our students as remote as the Wars of the Roses was to us in our college days, that history is going the way of the dodo.

Everyone is now full of the miracles done by cold baths on decayed and weak constitutions.

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