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
In ten minutes he completed the following and the dragoman took it away with him, highly pleased:— To Whom It May Concern—Greeting:—The bearer, Mahmoud, is a dragoman of monumental mendacity and commercial Machiavellism.
From In Pastures New by George Ade
There he doubtless hired his Karian dragoman, with whom he sailed away over the inundated land to Sais.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
Dr. N. and his son were in want, and Paul entered their service as dragoman and superintendent of another man, who, they said, was worth a dozen of Paul.
From Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) by John Lloyd Stephens
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
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
The despair of his mother, the hateful triumph of the missionaries, the derisive laughter of the dragomans, came before his mind.
From The Valley of the Kings by Marmaduke William Pickthall
Abdullah demanded on behalf of Iskender that all who professed any knowledge of the matter should be called and questioned in the hearing of the group of 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 hasn't seen lion yet, but has heard a lot about the one which is causing a panic amongst the dragomen in Luxor.
From The Hawk of Egypt by Joan Conquest
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
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
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
He had learned that this was the way to deal with dragomen.
From Active Service by Stephen Crane
