grape-gathering

Updated: May 15, 2025

The grape-gathering was little more than a pretence for basking in the sun, or for lounging in the shade of the abundant verdure, which seemed to have been sown by the hurricane, and watered by the wintry surf, so luxuriantly did it spring from the sands and the salt waves.

Harriet Martineau - The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance