harvest supper

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I ne'er sot up so i' MY life, not to say as it warna a marr'in', or a christenin', or a wake, or th' harvest supper.

From Adam Bede by Eliot, George

One day during the harvest season, when this rich farmer’s corn had been all cut down and housed, he invited the neighbors to a harvest supper.

From Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales by Baltzell, W. J. (Winton James)

Oh, I recited it better at the harvest supper; and you have no idea how the farmers enjoyed it.

From A Mere Accident by Moore, George (George Augustus)

"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

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