harvest supper

Example Sentences

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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

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 Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz

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

And yet it was worth something, too, to be the one to authorize that harvest supper in the big barn, in the confidence that it would be anything but revelry. 

From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

Besides there's our old song that we always sing at harvest supper, where it comes in—'We'll drink and dance like Pharisees.'

From Highways and Byways in Sussex by Griggs, Frederick Landseer Maur