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
There he doubtless hired his Karian dragoman, with whom he sailed away over the inundated land to Sais.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
Accordingly I turned the tourist over to my dragoman with orders to show him everything and give him all the information he wanted.
From Recollections of a Varied Life by Eggleston, George Cary
With my dragoman I paid my official calls upon the Grand Vizier and the Minister of Foreign Affairs at the Porte, both of whom received me in full-dress uniform and immediately returned the calls.
From Under Four Administrations From Cleveland to Taft by Straus, Oscar S.
Iskender still had hope to foil the dragomans.
From The Valley of the Kings by Pickthall, Marmaduke William
In no hurry to go home, for his mother had already heard the tidings, he bent his steps towards a tavern where the dragomans were wont to assemble at that hour.
From The Valley of the Kings by Pickthall, Marmaduke William
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
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
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 Pickthall, Marmaduke William
To-day, being the last of our imprisonment, we have received many tokens of attention from dragomen, who have sent their papers through the grate to us, to be returned to-morrow after our liberation.
From The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain by Taylor, Bayard
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)
We have done the best we could, however, in sending one of the outside dragomen to purchase a Bible, in which we succeeded.
From The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain by Taylor, Bayard
In the time of Chukri Bey they were kind, faithful dragomen who did their best to save us from being swindled in the bazaars.
From A Prisoner in Turkey by Still, John
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 Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
