dragoman

Example Sentences

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Soon, Buchwald set himself up as the laughing dragoman to American celebrities.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some men did manage to get into the boats, notably Henry Sleeper Harper, of the publishing family, who took along an Egyptian dragoman and his Pekingese named Sun Yatsen.

From Time Magazine Archive

A friend going through the valley of the Euphrates tried to get his dragoman to pitch his tent near the ruins, and failed.

From Pleasure & Profit in Bible Study by Moody, Dwight Lyman

"Where is your dragoman?" they said; "why do you not send for him?"

From By Desert Ways to Baghdad by Jebb, Louisa

Let his fellows grumble and objurgate, said he; they would cringe to him when he became a dragoman, with his pockets stuffed with piastres.

From A Book of Ghosts by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)