"And then," she went on, "the lanes with the high green hedges, dog-roses and brambles and may bushes and traveller's joy-and the grey wooden hurdles, and the gates with yellow lichen on them, and the white roads and the light in the farm windows as you come home from work-and the fire-and the smell of apples from the loft."
"The Literary Sense"
E. Nesbit
They were revetted with hurdles and planks of timber which were kept in position by iron pickets, which were securely wired to anchor pickets driven sideways into the walls of the trench.
"The Story of the "9th King's" in France"
Enos Herbert Glynne Roberts
We are going to the Bois de Cambre, and there's two of our men gone on with hurdles, to set them up in the cross alleys of the wood, and we 're to come on 'em unawares, you see.
"That Boy Of Norcott's"
Charles James Lever