dragoman

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

Briefly, he acted as a sort of amateur dragoman without any of the qualifications usually expected of these gentlemen—and possessing a great many of the virtues in which, as a rule, they are sadly lacking.

From By Desert Ways to Baghdad by Louisa Jebb

What Herodotos tells us about them plainly comes from his Karian dragoman, and refers to some native Karian festival.

From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

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 George Ade

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

Already Yuhanna and the other dragomans jeered at him in the streets, acclaiming the triumph of Elias, their own comrade.

From The Valley of the Kings by Marmaduke William Pickthall

Several of the dragomans were there, including Abdullah, uncle of Iskender, who questioned Elias in no peaceful tone.

From The Valley of the Kings by Marmaduke William Pickthall

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

He shot a glance over his shoulder at the other dragomans.

From The Valley of the Kings by Marmaduke William Pickthall

He had learned that this was the way to deal with dragomen.

From Active Service by Stephen Crane

Such was the way in which Egyptian history was constructed by the combined efforts of the popular imagination, the foreign dragomen, and Herodotos!

From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

But the whole story was an invention of the dragomen.

From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

Only in the marble court-yard below us, a few dragomen and mukkairee lingered under the lemon-trees, and beside the fountain in the centre.

From The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain by Bayard Taylor

From this point forward Herodotos no longer derived his information from “the Egyptians themselves,” that is to say, from his guides and dragomen, but “from the rest of the world.”

From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce