traveling agent
Example Sentences
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Edson was a traveling agent for Herring & Co., a safe manufacturer, and a man of loose morals looking for easy money.
From Slate • Dec. 28, 2023
His mother, Carrie, worked for a time as a traveling agent for The Plaindealer.
From New York Times • Aug. 9, 2018
James Randall had bought him and three other slaves from a traveling agent after the fever deaths a year and a half ago.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
Immediately after Sumter fell, he summoned to him, by telegraph, his traveling agent, together with Mr. George Humphreys, who had, as an assistant, been with him for years.
From Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive by Burnett, Alf
One day Mr. Cornell, who was at that time occupying the humble position of traveling agent for a patent plough, called at the office of an agricultural newspaper in Portland, Maine.
From Historic Tales, Vol. 1 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles
