colporteurs
- plural of colporteur.
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But mostly the word is spread by the Society's volunteer workers and colporteurs, hawkers of Holy Writ who carry Bibles, pamphlets and records by donkey and jeep, camel and subway in 123 different countries.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some facts: Total number of Bibles, New Testaments and portions of Scripture distributed last year: 11,888,226, of which 7,604.625 copies were sold by the colporteurs.
From Time Magazine Archive
By far, the larger part of this total circulation is distributed by sale to individuals, through colporteurs, pastors, mission workers and others.
From Time Magazine Archive
I see a troop of schoolmasters; a larger one of newspaper-venders; and a whole army of colporteurs, each with a bag of Bibles on his back!
From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 09, May 28, 1870 by Various
The Society for Religious Publications employed 1300 colporteurs, and effected sales during the year to the amount of 526,000 dollars.
From The Englishwoman in America by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
