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
He then became a colporteur of religious books, when he suffered much from his friends, yet lived so economically that he managed to save sufficient money to enable him to study for the ministry.
From Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by B.D.
In a remote village of Spain a Bible Society’s colporteur, carrying a coloured banner, sold me a copy of Cipriano de Valera’s New Testament for a peseta.
From The Life of George Borrow by Clement K. Shorter
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
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
The Society for Religious Publications employed 1300 colporteurs, and effected sales during the year to the amount of 526,000 dollars.
From The Englishwoman in America by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
It's a pity you couldn't have six months even at Laval—but, of course, Sabrevois and the long procession of colporteurs is more in your line.
From Ringfield A Novel by S. Frances (Susie Frances) Harrison
