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

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

She was not thinking of the licensing magistrates of St Michael's nor the beautiful faith of the colporteur.

From The Perpetual Curate by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

A colporteur has been present with his wares, and succeeds in selling at a small price portions of the Scriptures and tracts.

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