colporteur

Example Sentences

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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

“I have books to sell, and will show them to you forthwith,” answered the colporteur, unslinging his pack.

From Count Ulrich of Lindburg A Tale of the Reformation in Germany by Kingston, William Henry Giles

I am the possessor of the manuscript of Borrow’s ‘Gypsies in Spain,’ written partly in a Spanish note-book as he moved about Spain in his colporteur days. 

From Old Familiar Faces by Watts-Dunton, Theodore

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.