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
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 Janey Canuck
I am the possessor of the manuscript of Borrow’s ‘Gypsies in Spain,’ written partly in a Spanish note-book as he moved about Spain in his colporteur days.
From Old Familiar Faces by Theodore Watts-Dunton
His enmity with Rome dates from his Spanish experiences as colporteur of the Bible Society in 1838 and 1839.
From The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' by John Sampson
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
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
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
Some of our native colporteurs work with our Scotch brethren and thus is Christian unity cemented.
From Our Moslem Sisters A Cry of Need from Lands of Darkness Interpreted by Those Who Heard It by Samuel Marinus Zwemer
