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Example sentences for "colporteurs"

Lexicographically close words:
colours; colpa; colpo; colportage; colporteur; cols; colt; colts; coltsfoot; colubrid
  1. I had thoughts of sending colporteurs into the neighbouring villages, but to this our friend objected.

  2. A large part of the Bible has been translated into Persian and very widely circulated through the adjacent country by means of colporteurs of the British and Foreign Bible Society.

  3. To awaken interest in his campaign, Borrow planned to print a thousand advertisements, which were to be posted in various parts of the city, and to employ colporteurs to vend the books in the streets.

  4. I had thought of sending colporteurs into the neighbouring villages, but to this our friend objected.

  5. The propaganda carried on by colporteurs was scarcely less successful.

  6. They were the forerunners of the young preachers, teachers, and colporteurs whom Calvin trained later in Geneva and sent forth by the hundred to evangelise France and the Low Countries.

  7. It was impotent in lands where the Reformation was firmly established; and in France, papal Germany, and north Italy a class of daring colporteurs carried the prohibited tracts, Bibles, and religious literature throughout the lands.

  8. The colporteurs and volunteer workers of the German Baptist churches constitute an agency for the dissemination of Christian literature which, for cheapness and effectiveness, is scarcely equalled anywhere.

  9. I shall likewise employ colporteurs to vend them in the streets, and shall perhaps establish a stall or small shop, where Testaments and Testaments alone will be sold.

  10. Special wholesale rates to colporteurs and those who desire to aid in circulating these booklets widely.


  11. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "colporteurs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.