cany

Updated: September 9, 2025

The little cany carriage partly perhaps from the dreadful torsion of the wheels in its recent movement, partly from the thundering blow we had given to it as if it sympathized with human horror, was all alive with tremblings and shiverings. The young man sat like a rock. He stirred not at all. But his was the steadiness of agitation frozen into rest by horror.

Thomas De Quincey - Miscellaneous Essays