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

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)

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

“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