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Along the poplar-flickering roads south of Paris last week rolled two camions each bearing an enormous head.

From Time Magazine Archive

We passed other camions on the road and I looked at the country.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway

The camions started back, while soldiers and officers stretched out along the roadside to snatch a few hours of sleep.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume VII (of VIII) American Food and Ships; Palestine; Italy invaded; Great German Offensive; Americans in Picardy; Americans on the Marne; Foch's Counteroffensive. by Various

The men packed into the camions had broken through the canvas covers and leaned out, waving their arms and shouting.

From One Man's Initiation—1917 by Dos Passos, John

They could hear almost constantly the grinding roar of camions on the road behind the café and the slither of their wheels through the mud-puddles where the road turned into the village.

From One Man's Initiation—1917 by Dos Passos, John