harvest supper
Example Sentences
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They were Irishmen, reapers, and were returning from a harvest supper at a farm five miles from St. Cross, upon the previous evening.
From Henry Dunbar A Novel by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
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)
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 Hardy, Thomas
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
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 Stevenson, Burton Egbert
