harvest supper
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I ne'er sot up so i' MY life, not to say as it warna a marr'in', or a christenin', or a wake, or th' harvest supper.
From Adam Bede by George Eliot
He would have a jolly wedding, a harvest supper and a wedding feast in one: a tent in the home close, and a band for dancing, and a great feast out of doors.
From The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
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
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 Sir James George Frazer
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
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