Tall Chevaux de frises of swings were locked back with long bars; about the caravans picked out with red and green, the proprietors of cocoanut-shies and roundabouts smoked their pipes; and up the East Heath Road there rumbled from time to time, shaking the ground, a traction-engine with its string of waggons and gaudy tumbrils.
"The Debit Account"
Oliver Onions
I took it and read, "Bon pour 1,200 francs, prix de 2 Chevaux, etc."
"My Home In The Field of Honor"
Frances Wilson Huard
Also the men had to work in front of the Chevaux de frise, and they would have had great difficulty in getting back to their own lines should they have been surprised by the enemy.
"The Story of the "9th King's" in France"
Enos Herbert Glynne Roberts