colporteur

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Art became a colporteur, a distributer of tracts, a mendicant missionary whose highest ambition was to suppress all heathen joy.

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I am the possessor of the MS. of Borrow’s Gypsies of Spain, written partly in a Spanish notebook as he moved about Spain in his colporteur days. 

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In a remote village of Spain a Bible Society’s colporteur, carrying a coloured banner, sold me a copy of Cipriano de Valera’s New Testament for a peseta. 

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As it was, the heretical colporteur had seventy-six copies of the New Testament confiscated.

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One of our guests was an old travelling preacher—'colporteur,' as he was called, since he carried about religious books for sale.

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