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While she was caring for it, her father, who was a Colporteur of the American Tract
The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy Robert Elliott Flickinger
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Swine with his female Colporteur; Raskolnikoff reading the Miracle of the Raising of Lazarus with his prostitute Sonia, are scenes that might strike an English mind as mere melodramatic sentiment, but those who have entered into the Dostoievsky secret know how much more than that there is in them, and how deep into the mystery of things and the irony of things they go.
Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions John Cowper Powys 1917
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He traveled as State Missionary and Colporteur for the American Baptist Publication Society.
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1853; Chronicles of Merry England, 1854; Claude the Colporteur, 1854;
Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary Anne Manning 1843
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Society, "" One cannot help thinking of the glorious field of labour which lies open here before the Colporteur, and of the pleasant way in which his labours are appreciated by all. "
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 27, 1892 Various
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