harvest supper

Example Sentences

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But, anyway, she isna going before the harvest supper o' Wednesday, and you must come then.

From Adam Bede by Eliot, George

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 Runciman, James

“I have left them all very merry at the harvest supper, but I had a mind to see my friends.”

From The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl by Cobbold, Richard

Mr Burchell returned her a compliment for her intentions; but resigned her up to the chaplain, adding that he was to go that night five miles, being invited to an harvest supper.

From The Vicar of Wakefield by Goldsmith, Oliver

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)