colporteur

• Le colporteur, sa femme et l'apprenti sont arretes tous les trois; ils viennent d'etre pilories, fouettes et marques, et l'apprenti condamne a neuf ans de galeres, le colporteur a cinq ans, et la femme a l'hopital pour toute sa vie There are two very interesting pieces of contemporary criticism of Le Christianisme devoile , one by Voltaire, the other by Grimm. —  Baron d'Holbach
• Little Ava received no answer to her epistle sent by the colporteur, and she was eagerly looking out for his return. —  Count Ulrich of Lindburg A Tale of the Reformation in Germany
• A colporteur, not ill-named as M. Pamphlet, comes to urge payment of his bill 192] See above, vol. i. p. 362 193] Petites Lettres sur de Grands Philosophes_, ii 194] Oeuv. —  Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II.
• At first, as the colporteur read, the people listened with grave attention; but when he came to the verses that describe the idols of the heathen as being made of, "silver and gold, the work of men's hands," with mouths that could not speak, and eyes that could not see, and ears that could not hear, several of the more earnest listeners began to frown, and it was evident that they regarded the language of the colporteur's book as applicable to their sacred pictures, and resented the implied censure. —  In the Track of the Troops
• The colporteur, wisely forbearing to press his victory at that time, left the truth to simmer. —  In the Track of the Troops

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