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
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
Dr. N. and his son were in want, and Paul entered their service as dragoman and superintendent of another man, who, they said, was worth a dozen of Paul.
From Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) by Stephens, John Lloyd
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 Howe, Julia Ward
