harvest-time

The bird has become so associated with harvest-time celebratory dinners that we've been calling Thanksgiving "Turkey Day" since at least 1870.

They seldom come nearer to it than planting-time, harvest-time, cherry-time, spring-time, or fall-time.

“No, ma’am—oh, no! No one is living there. I suppose you are a stranger in these parts, or you would have heard what happened last autumn,—Thornfield Hall is quite a ruin: it was burnt down just about harvest-time. A dreadful calamity! such an immense quantity of valuable property destroyed: hardly any of the furniture could be saved. The fire broke out at dead of night, and before the engines arrived from Millcote, the building was one mass of flame. It was a terrible spectacle: I witnessed it myself.”

This was a terrible creature sent to ravage the country of Calydon by Artemis in order to punish the King, Oeneus, because he forgot her when he was sacrificing the first fruits to the gods at the harvest-time.

So you can see why, on the day of the Annual Ballard Paper Mill Harvest-Time Employee Picnic, I wasn’t overcome with happiness and joy.