itinerant

• Samuel Clemens began his career as an itinerant, tramping “jour” printer. —  Mark Twain
• Doctors_, itinerant, their apparatus 242. —  An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa
• He studied the humour of the times; and, conforming to what would gain him a maintenance, he turned his pulpit into a stage-itinerant, and commenced Jack Priggins, a redoubtable Merry Andrew Though the royalists, while in expectation of the restoration, had promised to abstain from all suits of law on account of the injustice they had suffered, the extortions of Morgan had so much out-heroded Herod, that justice claimed a right of stripping the daw who had long stalked in stolen trappings. —  The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel
• Philosophers were apt to be itinerant, and St. Paul was looked upon as but another of these new arrivals. —  Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul
• The difference between the regular trader and the coureur des bois_, (as the French call the itinerant or peddling traders,) with respect to the sale of spirits, is here, as it always has been, fixed and permanent, and growing out of the nature of their trade. —  The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources

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