harvest supper
Example Sentences
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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
The third group of instances consists of the harvest customs of northern Europe—the harvest supper and the rites of the Corn-mother or the Corn-maiden or the Kern Baby.
From An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion by F. B. (Frank Byron) Jevons
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
No small share of work fell to Margaret’s hands, who had to prepare the harvest supper for fourteen men, besides women and children.
From The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl by Richard Cobbold
Even now this habit, well known in this country as the "harvest supper," is the last to disappear.
From Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution by Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin, Prince
