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

Mr Burchell returned her a compliment for her intentions; but resigned her up to the chaplain, adding that he was to go that night five miles, being invited to an harvest supper.

From The Vicar of Wakefield by Goldsmith, Oliver

Even now this habit, well known in this country as the "harvest supper," is the last to disappear.

From Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution by Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz

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

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