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
Dr. Lockhart, the missionary, acted voluntarily as my dragoman and guide in Shanghai, and showed me things in the city that I could never have discovered for myself.
From My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by Train, George Francis
About the middle of May, 1839, we left the shores of the Black Sea, accompanied by a Cossack and an excellent dragoman, who spoke all the dialects current in Southern Russia.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Hell, Xavier Hommaire de
I recognised him as a professional dragoman offered to us by Cook the week before.
From By Desert Ways to Baghdad by Jebb, Louisa
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 Pickthall, Marmaduke William
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
We are, under favour, perpetual and hereditary dragomans to you.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 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 Finn, James
We are pestered and plagued with guides and dragomans of every rank and shade;––social and political guides, moral and religious dragomans: a Tolstoy here, an Ibsen there, a Spencer above, a Nietzche below.
From The Book of Khalid by Rihani, Ameen Fares
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)
The story is a curious mixture of Egyptian and Semitic elements, while the inscription which the dragomen pretended to read upon the statue is a Greek invention.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
But the whole story was an invention of the dragomen.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
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 Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
From this point forward Herodotos no longer derived his information from “the Egyptians themselves,” that is to say, from his guides and dragomen, but “from the rest of the world.”
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
