Main Title: As I Lay Dying
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Author: Faulkner, William
First Published: 1930
Publisher Used for Citing: Vintage
Type: Fiction
Period: 20th Century

I noticed then how he was beginning to hump – a tall man and young – so that he looked already like a tall bird hunched in the cold weather, on the wagon seat.


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An old, old man with a bent back came like a badger out of a tent and snooped near, sniffing the air as he came.

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