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
This colporteur has a keen, clean mind—any one can see that—and I like him for his childlike straightness of soul.
From Seeds of Pine by Janey Canuck
As the key turned in the lock, the colporteur found his voice.
From Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches by Joel Chandler Harris
The colporteur was very pale, but he seemed to be cool.
From Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches by Joel Chandler Harris
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
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
These were sent safely across the frontier in bales, put into the hands of colporteurs, and circulated amongst the Protestants all over the South of France.
From The Huguenots in France by Samuel Smiles
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
