dragoman

Example Sentences

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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

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

A dragoman he was not, though he called himself our "tergeman."

From By Desert Ways to Baghdad by Jebb, Louisa

He discounted the timorous statements of his dragoman, Ibrahim, but one who knew had warned him at El Ksar.

From The Truants by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)