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 George (George Augustus) Moore
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
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
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 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
