harvest supper
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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)
"Evy Austen put it into poetry, the eldest of the girls, and they made me recite it at the harvest supper."
From A Mere Accident by Moore, George (George Augustus)
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
Years after that I was at a harvest supper with that keeper, and we talks of that affair.
From The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary by Runciman, James
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
