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.

“I take but the proper price,” answered the colporteur, returning most of them to him.

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

The English colporteur, Mr. Copley, has given away 1,000 copies of the New Testament during the year, and he is aided by a band of foreign colporteurs quite as active as himself. 

From Cities of the Dawn by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)