harvest supper
Example Sentences
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One day during the harvest season, when this rich farmer’s corn had been all cut down and housed, he invited the neighbors to a harvest supper.
From Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales by W. J. (Winton James) Baltzell
The common meal, like the festival at the old tribal folkmote—the mahl or malum—or the Buryate aba, or the parish feast and the harvest supper, was simply an affirmation of brotherhood.
From Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution by Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin, Prince
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 James Runciman
They were Irishmen, reapers, and were returning from a harvest supper at a farm five miles from St. Cross, upon the previous evening.
From Henry Dunbar A Novel by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
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 Thomas Hardy
