Example Sentences

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The Mongars hate the dragomen who bring tourists in this direction at all.”

From The Black Box by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

Scotty questioned the clerk, the doorman, the hall porter, the room maid, and the dragomen who waited for business in the narrow street between the Semiramis and the Shepheard's hotels.

From The Egyptian Cat Mystery by Goodwin, Harold L. (Harold Leland)

Only in the marble court-yard below us, a few dragomen and mukkairee lingered under the lemon-trees, and beside the fountain in the centre.

From The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain by Taylor, Bayard

But the whole story was an invention of the dragomen.

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)