colporteur

Example Sentences

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A colporteur was reading the parable of the Prodigal Son in a Paris cafe much frequented by North African workmen.

From Time Magazine Archive

And the colporteur helps Vincent find permanent lodging with a farming family in Wasmes, the community he's serving.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

Their libel was seized in the hands of a colporteur.

From Pius IX. And His Time by Dawson, Æneas MacDonell

I am the possessor of the manuscript of Borrow’s ‘Gypsies in Spain,’ written partly in a Spanish note-book as he moved about Spain in his colporteur days. 

From Old Familiar Faces by Watts-Dunton, Theodore

At last he walked away with the book, the colporteur assuring him it would do him only good.

From Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 by Kennedy, James