We reclined on the steps of the hall; and while the men smoked and drank coffee, a conversation of a very uninteresting kind was kept up, the dragoman acting as interpreter.
He had already engaged a servant who would act as cook and dragoman (interpreter); provisions and cooking utensils had also been bought, and places were engaged on an Arab craft.
Quitting this abode of misery, my dragomanled me to "Joseph's well," which is deeply hewn out of the rock.
I know no quest so enchanting as a search through the winding lanes of the old quarters for these gems of Saracenic taste, which no guide-book has as yet chronicled, no dragoman discovered.
Her dragoman who took her into the desert has returned to Luxor.
The police report that she never reached the hills, so whether her dragoman deliberately took her off the track, and allowed one of her servants to go to the hills and secure the treasure, remains a mystery which may never be solved.
I never promised to accept the words of a dragoman against my own knowledge of Michael, against my conscience.
The dragoman can have no object in lying, and added to his report, there is the fact that if Michael had not dallied for some reason or another, he would have reached the hills long before this.
Millicent and her dragoman and her servants still formed a part of his camp; her splendid supply of food and medicines was so valuable for the saint that Michael's silent consent to her presence had been given.
His horse turning a corner as he followed the dragoman again slipped and almost fell.
He had brought but one servant with him, a dragoman whom he had picked up at Malta, and with him he started on his ride from the city of oranges.
But one mass was over and another not begun when he reached the building, and he had thus time to follow his dragoman to the various wonders of that very wonderful building.
At last hisdragoman espied a lull, and went again to the battle.
One dragoman of Cairo was accosted by an Australian private, who engaged his services, explaining that he wished to buy carpets to send to Australia as presents to his friends there.
The dragoman lit candles, and we all entered a hole near the base of the pyramid, attended by a crazy rabble of Arabs who thrust their services upon us uninvited.
It was a very short day's run, but the dragoman does not want to go further, and has invented a plausible lie about the country beyond this being infested by ferocious Arabs, who would make sleeping in their midst a dangerous pastime.
The two Napoleons were offered--more if necessary--and pilgrims and dragoman shouted themselves hoarse with pleadings to the retreating boatmen to come back.
At two in the morning they routed us out of bed--another piece of unwarranted cruelty--another stupid effort of our dragoman to get ahead of a rival.
By Ferguson I mean our dragoman Abraham, of course.
These appeals were vain--the dragomanonly smiled and shook his head.
At noon we halted before the wretched Arab town of El Yuba Dam, perched on the side of a mountain, but the dragoman said if we applied there for water we would be attacked by the whole tribe, for they did not love Christians.
Moreover, the dragoman is frequently enabled, through the close relations which he necessarily maintains with different classes of Turkish officials, to furnish valuable and confidential information not otherwise obtainable.
The duties of an embassy dragoman are extensive and not easily defined.
The dragoman tells us not to be alarmed, and says it is only a wedding procession.
My dragoman offered to bet ten dollars that one Arab could drink a quart of coffee, eat a roast turkey, two loaves of bread, and three pounds of rice at one meal!
We employ the same Dragoman who furnishes everything, and pays all expenses of the journey from one end to the other.
But Scotty's elation over finding a clue was tempered by the realization that a stranger driving Hassan's car could mean that Rick and the dragoman were in real danger.
The dragomanturned a corner, led them straight ahead for a few hundred steps, then turned a second corner.
The resourceful dragoman had realized the concrete mix being used for the floor was too liquid for easy handling and had prepared a drier batch.
Finally, he found a dragoman who knew nothing of their whereabouts, but added, "Why you not wait in room?
Now, as a clerk charged through the door, the dragoman flung himself sideways in a beautiful body block that sent the clerk back into the store with a crash.
He started to hand the letter to Hassan, then remembered the dragoman could not read.
No matter how they make a few piastres, the dragoman of some Bey or Pasha will steal it for his master.
And he possesses the proud distinction of being the only dragoman here-abouts who hasn't a letter of recommendation from Hichens.
Ahri is my dragomanand body-servant and general factotum," said Loria, by way of introduction.
Pauline, as she received the dragoman in her sitting room.
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.
I was seated at His Majesty's right, with the dragoman next to me, and the Grand Vizier was at the left; down both sides sat the pashas, their breasts sparkling with diamond orders.
The Pasha replied at once, appointing a time two days later, and accordingly I went to the Sublime Porte, as the Turkish Government seat is called, in company with the charge and the dragoman or interpreter.
Our dragoman secures an open carriage that seats four persons, besides the coachman and himself on the coachmen's seat.
We dare not pass through this motley crowd to mount our donkeys until our dragoman interfered, striking indiscriminately right and left with his stick, which too often fell upon their heads or backs.
Here he had of necessity picked up a few words of English; and from a laborer in the cotton fields he was eventually graduated to the envied position of dragoman or guide.
He could have shown her the bazaars; and there wasn't a dragoman in Cairo more familiar with them than he.
My groom was not more inclined to receive it than the first, nor to listen to my remonstrances, and those of a dragoman of the Embassy, whose aid I had invoked in order to declare that I accepted the royal gift with due respect.
Homer, of Massachusetts, Dragoman to the Turkish Legation; H.
To these latter meetings Edgar always accompanied his chief as interpreter, Sir Sidney preferring his services to those of the dragoman of the embassy, as he was better able to understand and explain the naval points discussed.
It will be insufficient, if full justice for the prisoners is to be secured, that the ordinary form of Her Majesty's representative being present through a dragoman or otherwise, at the proceedings, should be the only one observed.
For what was passing in the street he had nobody on whom he could rely except his Greek dragoman Aranghi who picked up his news at the cafes of the European quarter.
This is easily managed by a little intriguing with the dragoman of one of the embassies at Constantinople, and the craft soon glories in the ensign of Russia, or the dazzling Tricolor, or the Union Jack.
Yet unless you can contrive to learn a little of the language, you will be rather bored by your visits of ceremony; the intervention of the interpreter, ordragoman as he is called, is fatal to the spirit of conversation.
A dragoman never interprets in terms the courteous language of the East.
I know not whether the engagement which my zealous dragoman extorted from the Governor was ever complied with.
When you have seen enough of it you feel perhaps weary of the busy crowd, and inclined for a gallop; you ask your dragoman whether there will be time before sunset to procure horses and take a ride to Mount Calvary.
The dragoman had been captain of a troop of cavalry in the service of Mehemet Ali, and on some quarrel with his commanding officer had left the service and kingdom.
He went into the vice-regal presence, attended by a dragoman whom he had previously instructed in the subject-matter to be propounded--some question of redress for grievance.
The irascible dragoman would then beat his own head unmercifully with his fists, in a paroxysm of rage.
Accordingly, of my few attendants, my dragoman was Mahomet, and my principal guide was Achmet, and subsequently I had a number of Alis.
The mild and lamb-like dragoman of Cairo would suddenly start from the ground, tear his own hair from his head in handfuls, and shout, "Mahomet!
My dragoman had me completely in his power, and I resolved to become independent of all interpreters as soon as possible.
He had no illusions about the one-eyed man's loyalty, but the fellow was already in the secret; he was needy and resourceful and as trustworthy as any dragoman that he could have gone to.
I didn't believe it all when the dragoman told me--probably because he showed me the mark of the horse's hoof in the stone of the parapet!
A fat dragoman had suddenly appeared from nowhere and was hurriedly attempting to lead away the intoxicated one.
And a dragomanwould have had a reputation and a patronage he'd fear to lose.
Take him to his hotel and throw him in the tub," said Billy curtly, and the dragoman replied with profound respect that he would do even as the heaven-born commanded.
Of course, the dragoman was well tipped and he helped me considerably in hastening the examination I had to undergo at the hands of the Turkish officials.
After securing my permit, I ran downstairs and straight to "my" consul, whose dragoman I took along with me to the seraya, or government building.
B] One of whom was a dragoman of the English consulate at the time.
My protecting dragoman was somewhere out of sight, and the Franciscan monks who own this most sacred "God's Acre" were unobtrusively tending the flowers somewhere about.
Our dragoman took us this time through the whole length of the town of Tiberias.
So the black Nubian, who seemed always waiting for a call, was summoned and instructed to send out for the dragoman engaged by Dick on their arrival, to pilot them from the steamer to their hotel.
We sure must take a dragoman if we're going to amble over there.
If this dragoman will not act as guide for us, we can easily secure another.
Then came the dragoman Merriwell had selected, and soon they were on their way to the shore.
My young dragoman having fastened a hook to a bit of string, and the bit of string to the stern of the steamer, has been waiting some hours for a fish.
I never saw anything to approach his obtuseness in the matter, except perhaps that of Georgi, my dragoman in Turkey.
I have remarked, with regard to grown-up Arabs, that though they wrangle vehemently with the dragoman on the subject of payment, they invariably show the master a pleasant and satisfied face.
An elaborate salute from the guns of the dragoman and engineer, responded to with appropriate solemnity by Hosseyn, announced my return to my steamer--and, oh joy!
The dragoman of the ship having a swelling of some sort on his arm, an Arab doctor was sent for, and forthwith informed him that his arm was possessed of the devil!
