harvest supper

Example Sentences

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And yet it was worth something, too, to be the one to authorize that harvest supper in the big barn, in the confidence that it would be anything but revelry. 

From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

At the harvest supper or dinner the man who “carried the Pig” gets one or more dumplings made in the form of pigs.

From The Golden Bough by Frazer, James George, Sir

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

But, anyway, she isna going before the harvest supper o' Wednesday, and you must come then.

From Adam Bede by Eliot, George

While she helps to serve the harvest supper In the lantern-lighted village hall, Moonlight rises on the burning woodland, Echoes dwindle from the distant Fall.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert