harvest supper

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Besides there's our old song that we always sing at harvest supper, where it comes in—'We'll drink and dance like Pharisees.'

From Highways and Byways in Sussex by Griggs, Frederick Landseer Maur

Years after that I was at a harvest supper with that keeper, and we talks of that affair.

From The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary by Runciman, James

Often I have heard it sung in shrill, piping voice at harvest supper or barn dance. 

From Tea-Table Talk by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)

Alas, the glad and sad times alike must die, and the dull prose of October follows hard on the wild jollity of the harvest supper, while Winter peers with haggard gaze over Autumn's shoulder!

From The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour by Runciman, James

This was the night which had been selected by Sergeant Troy — ruling now in the room of his wife — for giving the harvest supper and dance.

From Far from the Madding Crowd by Hardy, Thomas