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

This colporteur has a keen, clean mind—any one can see that—and I like him for his childlike straightness of soul.

From Seeds of Pine by Canuck, Janey

So whispered a small vestry-man Unto a colporteur.

From Gaudeamus! Humorous Poems by Scheffel, Joseph Victor von

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)