sugaring off

The Sabbath that followed the sugaring-off was to Maimie the most remarkable Sabbath of her life up to that day.

He would never see the moonlight falling through the trees as it fell that night of the sugaring-off, without thinking of her.

It had in truth a touch of going a-gypsying, if any work as hard as sugaring-off could have anything common with gypsy life.

A heavy green stick was placed across from fork to fork, and the sugaring-off kettles, sometimes five in number, hung on it.

But no rain came before the night fixed for the sugaring-off.