colporteur
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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
"Call it what you please," said the Vermont colporteur.
From Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches by Harris, Joel Chandler
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
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.
Some facts: Total number of Bibles, New Testaments and portions of Scripture distributed last year: 11,888,226, of which 7,604.625 copies were sold by the colporteurs.
From Time Magazine Archive
By far, the larger part of this total circulation is distributed by sale to individuals, through colporteurs, pastors, mission workers and others.
From Time Magazine Archive
But mostly the word is spread by the Society's volunteer workers and colporteurs, hawkers of Holy Writ who carry Bibles, pamphlets and records by donkey and jeep, camel and subway in 123 different countries.
From Time Magazine Archive
They spent their money mostly in printer's ink and in the payment of active and zealous colporteurs.
From Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 by Nicolay, John George
They were furnished to the colporteurs at a low price, and thus the profits of the work enabled them to continue it.
From The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan by White, Ellen Gould Harmon
