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
While traveling in Northern Michigan I came across a young man clerking in a dry-goods store in a small iron-mining town, who expressed a desire to go on the road for me as traveling agent.
From Twenty Years of Hus'ling by Denslow, W. W. (William Wallace)
He's probably a traveling agent for a Vienna glass-factory, or a drummer for a cheap wine-house, or the agent for a Munich brewery.
From The Port of Missing Men by Nicholson, Meredith
