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
Accordingly I turned the tourist over to my dragoman with orders to show him everything and give him all the information he wanted.
From Recollections of a Varied Life by George Cary Eggleston
We feared danger, but Abram the dragoman showed no fear.
From My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by George Francis Train
"Where is your dragoman?" they said; "why do you not send for him?"
From By Desert Ways to Baghdad by Louisa Jebb
Sheikhs there were with flowing robes, dragomans who spoke no Arabic, Sultans and priests of Ancient Egypt, going arm-in-arm.
From Brood of the Witch-Queen by Sax Rohmer
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
When he told of the wicked plot of the dragomans, and how signally it had failed through Allah's mercy, it angered him to see her wag her head with boding looks.
From The Valley of the Kings by Marmaduke William Pickthall
Outside the hotel several Bedouin dragomans sauntered about or sat smoking and chatting; and a few camels and donkeys, saddled in readiness for hire, stood tethered near by.
From Burning Sands by Arthur Weigal
He shot a glance over his shoulder at the other dragomans.
From The Valley of the Kings by Marmaduke William Pickthall
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
Dragomans, not dragomen, is the plural of dragoman, an Eastern interpreter.
From Every-Day Errors of Speech by L. P. Meredith
Cairo is the successor of Memphis, and 'the caste' of the dragomen is not yet extinct.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
The story is a curious mixture of Egyptian and Semitic elements, while the inscription which the dragomen pretended to read upon the statue is a Greek invention.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
She had difficulty in getting guides and dragomen.
From Four Weird Tales by Algernon Blackwood
