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
When in Constantinople I met a Hebrew Christian colporteur named Solomon, who offered me a New Testament.
From Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by B.D.
After this he received another New Testament from a colporteur of the British and Foreign Bible Society, and read it with a pricked conscience for disobeying his father.
From Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by B.D.
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
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
There are some fifty foreign preachers and teachers in the field, aided by nearly eighty Spanish pastors and colporteurs.
From Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates
They were already quarrelling among themselves as to whether it should be the Waldenstromites or colporteurs from the National Evangelical Union.
From Jerusalem by Velma Swanston Howard
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