harvest supper
Example Sentences
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"Evy Austen put it into poetry, the eldest of the girls, and they made me recite it at the harvest supper."
From A Mere Accident by Moore, George (George Augustus)
You are as much out of your place as a vintage wine at a harvest supper.
From Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
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 Jevons, F. B. (Frank Byron)
Oh, I recited it better at the harvest supper; and you have no idea how the farmers enjoyed it.
From A Mere Accident by Moore, George (George Augustus)
"Her gift o' gab is what's goin' to be the makin' of her; mebbe she'll lecture, or recite pieces, like that Portland elocutionist that come out here to the harvest supper."
From Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith
