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

Several months passed, and then one of the brethren, a colporteur, came.

From Riches of Grace A Compilation of Experiences in the Christian Life by Byrum, E. E.

The usefulness of this term “permit” is admirably indicated by the account which a Presbyterian colporteur gives of an interview with some who objected to the Calvinistic doctrine of decrees.

From The Calvinistic Doctrine of Predestination Examined and Refuted by Hodgson, F. (Francis)

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 Watts-Dunton, Theodore