When he neared Broadway he noticed the captain's gathering of wanderers but thinking it to be the result of a street preacher or some patent medicine fakir was about to pass on.

当他走近百老汇大街时，他注意到上尉身边聚集的那些流浪汉。但他以为这是什么街头传教士或是什么卖假药的骗子招来的人群，正准备从旁边走过去。

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When he neared Broadway, he noticed the captain's gathering of wanderers, but thinking it to be the result of a street preacher or some patent medicine fakir, was about to pass on.

当他走近百老汇大街时，他注意到上尉身边聚集的那些流浪汉。但他以为这是什么街头传教士或是什么卖假药的骗子招来的人群，正准备从旁边走过去。

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Elizabeth Smart, whom we found after she was held for nine months by a so-called street preacher.

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He is a Salafist street preacher in his 30s who owns a small mobile phone shop in Bab al-Tabbana.

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Here, with the guidance of an actual cleric named Sidney Lanier, Talen dreamed up the character of a street preacher named Reverend Billy.

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