Sheard was on his hobbyhorse, and there were few there disposed to follow him.
"The Sins of Séverac Bablon"
Sax Rohmer
He sent her up a little hobbyhorse from the property room.
"Star-Dust A Story of an American Girl"
Fannie Hurst
But to see their clothes, and the various sorts, and what a mixture of things there was; here a wooden-leg, there a ruff, here a hobbyhorse, there a crown, would make a man split himself to see with laughing; and particularly Lacy's wardrobe, and Shotrell's.
"Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright"
Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke