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 Julia Ward Howe

Let his fellows grumble and objurgate, said he; they would cringe to him when he became a dragoman, with his pockets stuffed with piastres.

From A Book of Ghosts by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

"Where is your dragoman?" they said; "why do you not send for him?"

From By Desert Ways to Baghdad by Louisa Jebb

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

The high estimation in which the dragomans are held by most foreign powers is shown by the fact that they are usually and in the regular course promoted to the most important diplomatic posts.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various

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 Marmaduke William Pickthall

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

From The Valley of the Kings by Marmaduke William Pickthall

Indeed his eagerness became a visible disorder, and, seeing him mingle freely with the other dragomans, Iskender went in hourly fear of indiscretions.

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

Some were on their own hook; some had horses and dragomen and some had neither the one nor the other; many knew how to write and a few had it yet to learn.

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

It was no good applying to the hotels or tourist agencies, for there were few visitors in the city and dragomen were therefore not needed.

From Stories by English Authors: Africa (Selected by Scribners) by W. C. (William Charles) Scully

It must have been the invention of the Karian dragomen who came into existence under the Saitic dynasty.

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