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
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
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
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
Much of this, no doubt, is due to the wisdom, tact, and firmness of George the Bethlehemite, the best of dragomans.
From Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit by Henry Van Dyke
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
A courier arriving for the Alexandrian, informed him at last, that Mohammed the pearl of dragomans had been seen on the road to Egypt, beyond El Arish.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 by Various
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
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
He hasn't seen lion yet, but has heard a lot about the one which is causing a panic amongst the dragomen in Luxor.
From The Hawk of Egypt by Joan Conquest
For example, we license our guide-interpreters, who are called dragomen.
From The Egyptian Cat Mystery by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin
She had difficulty in getting guides and dragomen.
From Four Weird Tales by Algernon Blackwood
He had learned that this was the way to deal with dragomen.
From Active Service by Stephen Crane
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 John Still
