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

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)

After this he received another New Testament from a colporteur of the British and Foreign Bible Society, and read it with a pricked conscience for disobeying his father.

From Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by B.D.

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

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