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
The colporteur refused to cancel the sale, and the man was sorely perplexed, reluctant to lose both his money and that for which the money was paid.
From Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 by James Kennedy
"Call it what you please," said the Vermont colporteur.
From Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches by Joel Chandler Harris
Along these arteries of traffic many tons of tracts and propaganda are hurled annually by train, felucca and colporteur.
From Pan-Islam by G. Wyman (George Wyman) Bury
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
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
He forthwith gave orders for the release of all colporteurs and that no further arrests were to be made.
From Under Four Administrations From Cleveland to Taft by Oscar S. Straus
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 John George Nicolay
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