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
"When I heard of the affair I asked the dragoman why he had lied so outrageously and he calmly replied: "'Oh, I thought it polite to give the gentleman what he wanted.'
From Recollections of a Varied Life by George Cary Eggleston
I was seated at His Majesty's right, with the dragoman next to me, and the Grand Vizier was at the left; down both sides sat the pashas, their breasts sparkling with diamond orders.
From Under Four Administrations From Cleveland to Taft by Oscar S. Straus
Mr. Peasley in a thoughtless moment requested the dragoman to conduct us to this shop.
From In Pastures New by George Ade
We are, under favour, perpetual and hereditary dragomans to you.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 by Various
The other gentlemen on coming up, adopted the choice of their dragomans and muleteers, near the water, after having the thorns and thistles cleared away.
From Byeways in Palestine by James Finn
As soon as he was born, two dragomans came to guard him against harm, and the stars bowed themselves before him.
From The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by James Grant
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
What a motley meeting we formed—of Moslems, Greek-Church dragomans, Protestants, and Fire-worshippers, as the gipsies are always believed in Asia to be.
From Byeways in Palestine by James Finn
But the whole story was an invention of the dragomen.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
The Mongars hate the dragomen who bring tourists in this direction at all.”
From The Black Box by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
For example, we license our guide-interpreters, who are called dragomen.
From The Egyptian Cat Mystery by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin
He had learned that this was the way to deal with dragomen.
From Active Service by Stephen Crane
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
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