The younger people had their berrying frolics, sleigh-rides, kitchen dances, nuttings, and the like, and their elders their huskings, apple bees, and sewing societies, but against all these the deacon set his hard face.
1880, Henry Mills Alden, “Mrs. Flint's Married Experience”, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, December edition, volume 62, New York: Harper & Brothers, published 1881, page 89