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

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

The colporteur was very pale, but he seemed to be cool.

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

I am the possessor of the MS. of Borrow’s Gypsies of Spain, written partly in a Spanish notebook as he moved about Spain in his colporteur days. 

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