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

Then he said to his dragoman, "Ask him what he wants of me."

From A Literary History of the Arabs by Nicholson, Reynold

Briefly, he acted as a sort of amateur dragoman without any of the qualifications usually expected of these gentlemen—and possessing a great many of the virtues in which, as a rule, they are sadly lacking.

From By Desert Ways to Baghdad by Jebb, Louisa

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)