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
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
“I take but the proper price,” answered the colporteur, returning most of them to him.
From Count Ulrich of Lindburg A Tale of the Reformation in Germany by William Henry Giles Kingston
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
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
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
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
The whole movement originated several months ago, in the efforts of the colporteurs of a certain mission, to ameliorate the condition of sailors and fallen women of the Fourth Ward.
From The Secrets of the Great City by James Dabney McCabe
The English colporteur, Mr. Copley, has given away 1,000 copies of the New Testament during the year, and he is aided by a band of foreign colporteurs quite as active as himself.
From Cities of the Dawn by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
