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
At last he walked away with the book, the colporteur assuring him it would do him only good.
From Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 by James Kennedy
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
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
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
This the church, in course of time, discovered, and instituted a "minor order" of ministers, under the title of colporteurs.
From A History of American Christianity by Leonard Woolsey Bacon
It holds valuable properties in London, conducts an extensive printing establishment, and maintains a large corps of workers as secretaries, colporteurs, etc., not only in Great Britain but on the Continent, in India and elsewhere.
From Training the Teacher by A. F. Schauffler
