harvest supper
Example Sentences
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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
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
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 Burton Egbert Stevenson
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
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
