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

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)

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)