dragoman

Example Sentences

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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

A dragoman was found, a certain Don Alfonso reported to be comparatively honest.

From The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by MacKenzie, Compton

In ten minutes he completed the following and the dragoman took it away with him, highly pleased:— To Whom It May Concern—Greeting:—The bearer, Mahmoud, is a dragoman of monumental mendacity and commercial Machiavellism.

From In Pastures New by Ade, George

Dr. Lockhart, the missionary, acted voluntarily as my dragoman and guide in Shanghai, and showed me things in the city that I could never have discovered for myself.

From My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by Train, George Francis