dragoman
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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
I was seated at His Majesty's right, with the dragoman next to me, and the Grand Vizier was at the left; down both sides sat the pashas, their breasts sparkling with diamond orders.
From Under Four Administrations From Cleveland to Taft by Oscar S. Straus
The great man's easy-chair—by no means a splendid one—was then carried on board, and the great man himself, accompanied by his son-in-law and his dragoman, came among us.
From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe
A dragoman was found, a certain Don Alfonso reported to be comparatively honest.
From The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by Compton MacKenzie
When he told of the wicked plot of the dragomans, and how signally it had failed through Allah's mercy, it angered him to see her wag her head with boding looks.
From The Valley of the Kings by Marmaduke William Pickthall
Unfortunately, also, the British staff knew no language but English, and the most reliable dragomans knew only French, Italian, or German.
From Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle by M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham
Indeed his eagerness became a visible disorder, and, seeing him mingle freely with the other dragomans, Iskender went in hourly fear of indiscretions.
From The Valley of the Kings by Marmaduke William Pickthall
The original employment of dragomans by the Turkish government arose from its religious scruples to use any language save those of peoples which had adopted Islamism.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various
Just now there's no trafellers comin' to the country, so the dragomans just stand around and jolly well watch all what you do.
From The Valley of the Kings by Marmaduke William Pickthall
The story is a curious mixture of Egyptian and Semitic elements, while the inscription which the dragomen pretended to read upon the statue is a Greek invention.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
The Mongars hate the dragomen who bring tourists in this direction at all.”
From The Black Box by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
Only in the marble court-yard below us, a few dragomen and mukkairee lingered under the lemon-trees, and beside the fountain in the centre.
From The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain by Bayard Taylor
From this point forward Herodotos no longer derived his information from “the Egyptians themselves,” that is to say, from his guides and dragomen, but “from the rest of the world.”
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
Cairo is the successor of Memphis, and 'the caste' of the dragomen is not yet extinct.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
