Synonyms for circuit rider

Grammar : Noun

Définition of circuit rider

As in evangelist : noun preacher

Example sentences :

Herein was manifest the grandeur of the circuit rider's character.
Extract from : « Belford's Magazine, Vol 2, December 1888 » by Various

It was Peter Cartwright, the famous Methodist divine and circuit rider.
Extract from : « Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) » by William H. Herndon

The salary was small, even for a Methodist circuit rider, in the decade before the Civil War.
Extract from : « Benefits Forgot » by Honor Willsie

And I have sung myself, many a time, like a circuit rider with a crowded mourner's bench.
Extract from : « Dwellers in the Hills » by Melville Davisson Post

The circuit rider is not only a priest to his people, but he is a good deal of a mendicant besides.
Extract from : « A Circuit Rider's Wife » by Corra Harris

And I have often wondered why the monument builders have never thought to raise a statue to the Methodist circuit rider.
Extract from : « A Circuit Rider's Wife » by Corra Harris

With the circuit rider Eggleston undoubtedly added another type to the gallery of American fiction.
Extract from : « A History of American Literature Since 1870 » by Fred Lewis Pattee

Where was the great glare of yellow light that the "circuit rider" had told about—and the leaping tongues of fire?
Extract from : « The Trail of the Lonesome Pine » by John Fox, Jr.

The good bishop was then a circuit rider on Loudoun Circuit, and Rover carried him on her back around the circuit.
Extract from : « From Bull Run to Appomattox » by Luther W. Hopkins

The hired man delivered himself with the intonation somewhat of a circuit rider.
Extract from : « A Knight of the Cumberland » by John Fox Jr.

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