Example Sentences

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Just now there's no trafellers comin' to the country, so the dragomans just stand around and jolly well watch all what you do.

From The Valley of the Kings by Pickthall, Marmaduke William

We are, under favour, perpetual and hereditary dragomans to you.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 by Various

Grown rich by his favours and by the gold of England, these dragomans enlightened the unsuspecting ignorance of the Turks, as to the occupation and military surveys of the Ottoman frontiers by the French.

From History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 by Ségur, Philippe-Paul, comte de

Outside the hotel several Bedouin dragomans sauntered about or sat smoking and chatting; and a few camels and donkeys, saddled in readiness for hire, stood tethered near by.

From Burning Sands by Weigal, Arthur

It is safe to say that to many Americans Cairo is only a confused memory of donkeys and dragomans, mosquitoes and dervishes, and mosques, mosques, mosques!

From Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu by Woolson, Constance Fenimore