He thought the idea a good one, as far as regards Lisbon, but said that no colporteur would venture to carry them about the country, as the fanatical priests would probably cause him to be assassinated.
At last he walked away with the book, the colporteur assuring him it would do him only good.
The colporteur refused to cancel the sale, and the man was sorely perplexed, reluctant to lose both his money and that for which the money was paid.
A colporteur has been present with his wares, and succeeds in selling at a small price portions of the Scriptures and tracts.
He became a colporteur for a tract society, and was given as territory the towns on the east side of the Hudson River.
The Negro bought a dollar's worth of tracts, and persuaded the colporteur to spend the night with them.
A peaceful farming country this, but an unremunerative field, one would say, for the colporteur and the book-agent; and winter must inclose it in a lonesome seclusion.
His Map and Description of New England was published in 1616, and he became a colporteur of this, beseeching everywhere a hearing for his noble scheme.
At last the colporteurturned to the 115th Psalm, and I now began to perceive that the man had a purpose, and was gradually leading the people on.
The people greatly admired the binding of the volumes, and began to evince considerable interest in what the colporteur said about them.
Having selected some New Testaments and Bibles from his pack, the colporteur handed them round for inspection.
I observed that one of these, who had on a former visit been pointed out to me by my friend Dobri, sat not far from the colporteur smoking his chibouk with a grave critical expression of countenance.
Except that the book-man (as the colporteur was called) exchanged now and then a remark with Mr Redfern, little was said till supper was over and the Bible laid on the table for worship.
The colporteur sat looking into the red embers, with the smile on his face which Christie had found so attractive.
Turning to this man the colporteur said quietly, "Does not death come into public-houses?
The colporteur replied, with a look of enthusiasm, that he did expect much good, because much had already been done, and the promise of success was sure.
Before he left the place that colporteur had sold a fourpenny and a twopenny Testament, and several other religious works, beside distributing tracts gratuitously all round.
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The colporteur explained and preached the gospel to the best of his ability.
To the host's inquiry as to why he had been refused entertainment for the night the colporteur said: "They declined because I am a Protestant.
The colporteur replied by explaining that prayer must be from the heart.
One evening a colporteur approached her father's door and asked for entertainment, saying he had been refused by several families along the way.
He first moved to Rio Bonito and founded a church there, the truth spread, in other directions also and so the light which the unknown colporteur left with this farmer has shed its rays of blessings upon a whole county.
The colporteur read and there in the dining hall before the curious onlookers knelt and poured out his heart to his Heavenly Father.
When the time came to retire the colporteur said, "It is my custom to read the Scriptures and to pray before I retire.
In one instance the colporteur was taken for a doctor; in the other for a hunter.
A colporteurrecently entered a log-house of a dweller in Ohio, and asked the mistress of the household if they had the gospel there.
This may have been the same colporteur who entered another log-house, and inquired if there were any Presbyterians in that vicinity.
Did thecolporteur say anything about living holy or nearer to God?
Why, Robert," she said, "while you were gone a colporteur came here with these books.
But very early in my career, God graciously intervened, and in 1877 I came into contact with a colporteur of the British and Foreign Bible Society, who sold me a copy of the Hebrew New Testament.
Piatra (Moldavia), came with a number of young friends into possession of missionary literature which a colporteur from Bucharest had left in the town in 1874.
When in Constantinople I met a Hebrew Christian colporteurnamed Solomon, who offered me a New Testament.
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.
He then became a colporteurof religious books, when he suffered much from his friends, yet lived so economically that he managed to save sufficient money to enable him to study for the ministry.
The colporteur was very pale, but he seemed to be cool.
As the key turned in the lock, the colporteur found his voice.
The colporteurmade his escape over the wall of the city and fled to the house of some friends in the suburbs near the river-side.
In March last one of the members of our church, Chheng-choan, requested that he might be sent in company with the colporteur on a trip to the city of Chiangchiu to preach the Gospel and distribute tracts.
The evangelist U, and the colporteur Lotia, left Amoy on their mission to Chiangchiu, May 12th.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "colporteur" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: apostle; cadger; evangelist; huckster; peddler; revivalist; seller; vendor
