colporteur

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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 have books to sell, and will show them to you forthwith,” answered the colporteur, unslinging his pack.

From Count Ulrich of Lindburg A Tale of the Reformation in Germany by Kingston, William Henry Giles

Art became a colporteur, a distributer of tracts, a mendicant missionary whose highest ambition was to suppress all heathen joy.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany by Ingersoll, Robert Green