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
The colporteur refused to cancel the sale, and the man was sorely perplexed, reluctant to lose both his money and that for which the money was paid.
From Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 by James Kennedy
Joshua, was colporteur in Syria and in Asia Minor about 1860.
From Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by B.D.
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
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
More than 140 colporteurs, or agents, mostly natives, are peddling the Bible for sale in different parts of India.
From Modern India by William Eleroy Curtis
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