dragoman
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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
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
It is quite possible, therefore, that the scribe whom Herodotos met was acquainted with the Greek language, and that no dragoman was required to interpret his words.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
I recognised him as a professional dragoman offered to us by Cook the week before.
From By Desert Ways to Baghdad by Louisa Jebb
Just now there's no trafellers comin' to the country, so the dragomans just stand around and jolly well watch all what you do.
From The Valley of the Kings by Marmaduke William Pickthall
For the dragomans and their kind the house of Karlsberger stood for the fashion and gay life of Europe.
From The Valley of the Kings by Marmaduke William Pickthall
The original employment of dragomans by the Turkish government arose from its religious scruples to use any language save those of peoples which had adopted Islamism.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various
For company he had been obliged to consort with English-speaking touts and dragomans, who welcomed his proficiency in the foreign tongue; and these he hated, for they mocked his art.
From The Valley of the Kings by Marmaduke William Pickthall
Unfortunately, also, the British staff knew no language but English, and the most reliable dragomans knew only French, Italian, or German.
From Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle by M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham
It is the order in which he visited the monuments to which the dragomen attached their names, and it thus throws a welcome light on the course of his movements.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
Plans were made with T. Cook & Sons for dragomen and provisions, when all were frustrated by quarantine being declared.
From My Trip Around the World August, 1895-May, 1896 by Eleonora Hunt
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
By the time he was ready for the last step, the cooks and some of the dragomen were watching.
From The Egyptian Cat Mystery by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin
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 A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
