harvest supper
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"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
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
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 Frazer, James George, Sir
No small share of work fell to Margaret’s hands, who had to prepare the harvest supper for fourteen men, besides women and children.
From The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl by Cobbold, Richard
He would have a jolly wedding, a harvest supper and a wedding feast in one: a tent in the home close, and a band for dancing, and a great feast out of doors.
From The Rainbow by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
