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

In a remote village of Spain a Bible Society’s colporteur, carrying a coloured banner, sold me a copy of Cipriano de Valera’s New Testament for a peseta. 

From The Life of George Borrow by Shorter, Clement K.

Along these arteries of traffic many tons of tracts and propaganda are hurled annually by train, felucca and colporteur.

From Pan-Islam by Bury, G. Wyman (George Wyman)

"Call it what you please," said the Vermont colporteur.

From Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches by Harris, Joel Chandler