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
As the key turned in the lock, the colporteur found his voice.
From Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches by Joel Chandler Harris
Joshua, was colporteur in Syria and in Asia Minor about 1860.
From Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by B.D.
Now I labour for my food, and try to obey my Lord and Master,” answered the colporteur.
From Count Ulrich of Lindburg A Tale of the Reformation in Germany by William Henry Giles Kingston
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
I see a troop of schoolmasters; a larger one of newspaper-venders; and a whole army of colporteurs, each with a bag of Bibles on his back!
From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 09, May 28, 1870 by Various
He forthwith gave orders for the release of all colporteurs and that no further arrests were to be made.
From Under Four Administrations From Cleveland to Taft by Oscar S. Straus
