traveling agent
Example Sentences
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Edson was a traveling agent for Herring & Co., a safe manufacturer, and a man of loose morals looking for easy money.
From Slate • Dec. 28, 2023
His mother, Carrie, worked for a time as a traveling agent for The Plaindealer.
From New York Times • Aug. 9, 2018
James Randall had bought him and three other slaves from a traveling agent after the fever deaths a year and a half ago.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
While traveling in Northern Michigan I came across a young man clerking in a dry-goods store in a small iron-mining town, who expressed a desire to go on the road for me as traveling agent.
From Twenty Years of Hus'ling by Denslow, W. W. (William Wallace)
Immediately after Sumter fell, he summoned to him, by telegraph, his traveling agent, together with Mr. George Humphreys, who had, as an assistant, been with him for years.
From Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive by Burnett, Alf
