By lucky chance we fell in with the country-folk celebrating their harvest-home. ❋ Carla (2008)
As Jeanie entered she heard first the air, and then a part of the chorus and words, of what had been, perhaps, the song of a jolly harvest-home. ❋ Unknown (2007)
I danced with him last harvest-home; I know not why, unless for sheer good-nature; and now, forsooth, I am to have Boullin for ever thrust in my teeth. ❋ Unknown (2004)
O baleful Envy! thou self-tormenting fiend! how dost thou predominate in all assemblies, from the grand gala of a court, to the meeting of simple peasants at their harvest-home! ❋ Unknown (2004)
It was now between two and three years since the harvest-home which had ended so unhappily. ❋ T.P. Wilson (N/A)
Later, the harvest-home and the dance in green or barn when I was at almost my man's height, with the pluck to put a bare lip to its apprenticeship on a woman's cheek; the songs at _ceilidh_ fires, the telling of _sgeulachdan_ and fairy tales up on the mountain sheiling ---- ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)
So everything was done to make the harvest-home a day of feasting and mirth. ❋ T.P. Wilson (N/A)
Of course he did; and so did I; for these faulty hearts of ours cannot turn perfect in a night, but need frost and fire, wind and rain, to ripen and make them ready for the great harvest-home. ❋ Various (N/A)
The ancient Peruvians had their "Mother Maize," _Mama Cora_, which they worshipped with a sort of harvest-home having, as Andrew Lang points out, something in common with the children's last sheaf, in the north-country (English and Scotch) "kernaby," as well as with the ❋ Alexander F. Chamberlain (N/A)
Old Berrichon airs were introduced with effect, as also such picturesque rustic festival customs as the ancient harvest-home ceremony, in which the last sheaf is brought on a wagon, gaily decked out with poppies, cornflowers and ribbons, and receives a libation of wine poured by the hand of the oldest or youngest person present. ❋ Bertha Thomas (N/A)
He was presiding at a harvest-home given to his own tenants, and had passed from a warm eulogium on temperance and moderation to a vehement harangue against total abstinence and total abstainers. ❋ T.P. Wilson (N/A)
The festival of Saturnus himself occurred on December 17th, and was a barbarous and joyous harvest-home, a time of absolute relaxation and unrestrained merriment, when distinctions of rank were forgotten, and crowds thronged the streets crying, _Io Saturnalia! ❋ Arthur Gilman (N/A)
His success, however, was but small, till the day of the harvest-home, and then he resolved to make a great effort. ❋ T.P. Wilson (N/A)
I have seen a Danish harvest-home on a Sunday afternoon in the pretty village of Altona; watching its merry mummers as they passed by the old church-yard wall, where Klopstock lies buried. ❋ William Duthie (N/A)
And so the good harvest was gathered in, and then, when the last sheaf was set up, and the laden waggon went slowly away from the bare fields, the harvest-home was celebrated. ❋ Eva Hope (N/A)
“It is the harvest-home; if you wait you will see the procession.” ❋ William Duthie (N/A)
It is suited to stimulate the feeling of devotion, and to increase the boisterous pleasures of a village harvest-home. ❋ Thomas Hanly Ball (N/A)
The tattered remnant of a single bunch was all my harvest-home. ❋ Ontario. Ministry Of Education (N/A)
It was about a month after the harvest-home, so full of sad memories for all at the hall and rectory, that Mr Oliphant was seated one afternoon in the drawing-room of Greymoor Park. ❋ T.P. Wilson (N/A)
