colporteur

• “A heart-shaped bivalve or a garden flower. colporteur”

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• “Hence he was a sort of volunteer colporteur distributing gossip, as a notion pedler, before he was a store clerk where centered all the local news.”

  The Lincoln Story Book

• “A colporteur, known to me, when engaged selling Bibles in a Brazilian town, reports that the fanatical populace got his books and carried them, fastened and burning, at the end of blazing torches, while they tramped the streets, yelling: "Away with all false books!”

  Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America

• “Two only of the vagrant tribe the boy dislikes, the colporteur and the travelling Spiritualist -- two cold, shabby, sniffling beings, each wrapped in a shawl and each driving an old horse afflicted with poll-evil.”

  Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878

• “But the worthy lady pronounced colporteur as coalporter, and so on hearing from a friend that "the Coalporters were on strike," Mrs.R. could not help exclaiming, "Dear! how ungrateful of them, when they were being 'so much appreciated by all!”

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 27, 1892

• “The colporteur made his escape over the wall of the city and fled to the house of some friends in the suburbs near the river-side.”

  Forty Years in South China The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D.

• “Perhaps you wonder how so numerous a race of these beings has come to exist; but that boy at your elbow, bending under the weight of his literary burden, is a colporteur for converting the men and women of this "enlightened nation" to rowdyism.”

  The Elements of Character

• “Along these arteries of traffic many tons of tracts and propaganda are hurled annually by train, felucca and colporteur.”

  Pan-Islam

• “It has come to pass therefore that in addition to its colporteur, tract and publishing work, the Society is especially addressing itself to save the young Negro, and is using the Sunday-school, the Sunday-School and Bible institute and Correspondence Training School to help to that end.”

  An Outline of Baptist History: A Splendid Reference Work for Busy Workers. A Record of the Struggles and Triumphs of Baptist Pioneers and Builders

• “These missionaries are doing missionary and colporteur work jointly.”

  An Outline of Baptist History: A Splendid Reference Work for Busy Workers. A Record of the Struggles and Triumphs of Baptist Pioneers and Builders

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