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

We had also with us our dragoman Nicholas, whom we had brought on from Egypt.

From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Child-Villiers, Margaret Elizabeth Leigh

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 Stephens, John Lloyd

Doubtless his dragoman had told him something of the kind.

From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)