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

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)

He then became a colporteur of religious books, when he suffered much from his friends, yet lived so economically that he managed to save sufficient money to enable him to study for the ministry.

From Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by B.D.