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

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

In Egypt the guide is called a dragoman.

From In Pastures New by Ade, George

We had also with us our dragoman Nicholas, whom we had brought on from Egypt.

From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Child-Villiers, Margaret Elizabeth Leigh

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

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 Van Dyke, Henry

Grown rich by his favours and by the gold of England, these dragomans enlightened the unsuspecting ignorance of the Turks, as to the occupation and military surveys of the Ottoman frontiers by the French.

From History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 by Ségur, Philippe-Paul, comte de

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 Rohmer, Sax

He jerked his thumb in the direction of the other dragomans, now howling in chorus to the strains of the concertina.

From The Valley of the Kings by Pickthall, Marmaduke William

Dragomans, not dragomen, is the plural of dragoman, an Eastern interpreter.

From Every-Day Errors of Speech by Meredith, L. P.

Before it can do so, he has to finish his wanderings and his sight-seeing, to be quit of his dragomen and of the topographical chronology that he built upon their stories.

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

To-day, being the last of our imprisonment, we have received many tokens of attention from dragomen, who have sent their papers through the grate to us, to be returned to-morrow after our liberation.

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

We have done the best we could, however, in sending one of the outside dragomen to purchase a Bible, in which we succeeded.

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

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

From Active Service by Crane, Stephen