dragoman
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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
About the middle of May, 1839, we left the shores of the Black Sea, accompanied by a Cossack and an excellent dragoman, who spoke all the dialects current in Southern Russia.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell
I recognised him as a professional dragoman offered to us by Cook the week before.
From By Desert Ways to Baghdad by Louisa Jebb
We had also with us our dragoman Nicholas, whom we had brought on from Egypt.
From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers
He jerked his thumb in the direction of the other dragomans, now howling in chorus to the strains of the concertina.
From The Valley of the Kings by Marmaduke William Pickthall
Outside the hotel several Bedouin dragomans sauntered about or sat smoking and chatting; and a few camels and donkeys, saddled in readiness for hire, stood tethered near by.
From Burning Sands by Arthur Weigal
In the same way banks, railway companies and financial institutions employ dragomans for facilitating their business relations with Turkish officials.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various
It is very thoughtless, but it is in great measure the fault of the servants and dragomans who think they must not venture to tell their masters that pigeons are private property.
From Letters from Egypt by Janet Ross
For company he had been obliged to consort with English-speaking touts and dragomans, who welcomed his proficiency in the foreign tongue; and these he hated, for they mocked his art.
From The Valley of the Kings by Marmaduke William Pickthall
It is the order in which he visited the monuments to which the dragomen attached their names, and it thus throws a welcome light on the course of his movements.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
Such was the way in which Egyptian history was constructed by the combined efforts of the popular imagination, the foreign dragomen, and Herodotos!
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
Plans were made with T. Cook & Sons for dragomen and provisions, when all were frustrated by quarantine being declared.
From My Trip Around the World August, 1895-May, 1896 by Eleonora Hunt
By the time he was ready for the last step, the cooks and some of the dragomen were watching.
From The Egyptian Cat Mystery by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin
This she filled with a large retinue of dragomen, women, slaves, and Albanian guards.
From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by W. H. Davenport Adams
