dragoman
Example Sentences
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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
What Herodotos tells us about them plainly comes from his Karian dragoman, and refers to some native Karian festival.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
With my dragoman I paid my official calls upon the Grand Vizier and the Minister of Foreign Affairs at the Porte, both of whom received me in full-dress uniform and immediately returned the calls.
From Under Four Administrations From Cleveland to Taft by Straus, Oscar S.
Accordingly I turned the tourist over to my dragoman with orders to show him everything and give him all the information he wanted.
From Recollections of a Varied Life by Eggleston, George Cary
