dragoman
Example Sentences
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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
I could now feel for the sufferings of our poor dragoman during his long trot from Houidouk to the Caspian.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Hell, Xavier Hommaire de
Gutschmid has supported the Herodotean inscription on the strength of papyri from the times of Ramses Miamen in Philologus, 10, 644; the "talents" in any case must be left for the dragoman.
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Duncker, Max
"When I heard of the affair I asked the dragoman why he had lied so outrageously and he calmly replied: "'Oh, I thought it polite to give the gentleman what he wanted.'
From Recollections of a Varied Life by Eggleston, George Cary
