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
Briefly, he acted as a sort of amateur dragoman without any of the qualifications usually expected of these gentlemen—and possessing a great many of the virtues in which, as a rule, they are sadly lacking.
From By Desert Ways to Baghdad by Louisa Jebb
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
The high estimation in which the dragomans are held by most foreign powers is shown by the fact that they are usually and in the regular course promoted to the most important diplomatic posts.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various
Our Arabs, p. 37however, and the dragomans kept them singing till a late hour round the fires lighted among the tents.
From Byeways in Palestine by James Finn
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
It has taken him years to learn all he knows, and it is only the clever boys who can become good dragomans.
From Round the Wonderful World by A. S. (Archibald Stevenson) Forrest
The despair of his mother, the hateful triumph of the missionaries, the derisive laughter of the dragomans, came before his mind.
From The Valley of the Kings by Marmaduke William Pickthall
There is evidence also, that, after the Greek revolution, they took advantage of the fact that nearly all the dragomen of foreign ministers at the Turkish court were Roman Catholics.
From History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume I. by Rufus Anderson
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
Before it can do so, he has to finish his wanderings and his sight-seeing, to be quit of his dragomen and of the topographical chronology that he built upon their stories.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
But greatest of all were the expectations of the dragomen, who were most sullen if anything less than one or two pound note or gold piece was offered them.
From My Trip Around the World August, 1895-May, 1896 by Eleonora Hunt
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
