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
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
Their libel was seized in the hands of a colporteur.
From Pius IX. And His Time by Æneas MacDonell Dawson
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 F. (Francis) Hodgson
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
Chess-like commerce of colporteurs, and in caravans etc.
From Principles Of Political Economy by John J. (John Joseph) Lalor
It has employed 569 colporteurs, of whom 135 are students in colleges and seminaries.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various
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