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
Doubtless his dragoman had told him something of the kind.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
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
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
For the dragomans and their kind the house of Karlsberger stood for the fashion and gay life of Europe.
From The Valley of the Kings by Pickthall, Marmaduke William
What a motley meeting we formed—of Moslems, Greek-Church dragomans, Protestants, and Fire-worshippers, as the gipsies are always believed in Asia to be.
From Byeways in Palestine by Finn, James
Iskender still had hope to foil the dragomans.
From The Valley of the Kings by Pickthall, Marmaduke William
It is safe to say that to many Americans Cairo is only a confused memory of donkeys and dragomans, mosquitoes and dervishes, and mosques, mosques, mosques!
From Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
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 Pickthall, Marmaduke William
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 Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
It must have been the invention of the Karian dragomen who came into existence under the Saitic dynasty.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
It was no good applying to the hotels or tourist agencies, for there were few visitors in the city and dragomen were therefore not needed.
From Stories by English Authors: Africa (Selected by Scribners) by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)
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 Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
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 Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
