traveling agent
Example Sentences
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Edson was a traveling agent for Herring & Co., a safe manufacturer, and a man of loose morals looking for easy money.
From Slate • Dec. 28, 2023
His mother, Carrie, worked for a time as a traveling agent for The Plaindealer.
From New York Times • Aug. 9, 2018
James Randall had bought him and three other slaves from a traveling agent after the fever deaths a year and a half ago.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
One day Mr. Cornell, who was at that time occupying the humble position of traveling agent for a patent plough, called at the office of an agricultural newspaper in Portland, Maine.
From Historic Tales, Vol. 1 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles
Commencing active life as a clerk in a London counting-house, he afterward removed to Manchester, where he became the traveling agent of a house largely engaged in the cotton trade.
From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Stanton, Henry B.
