makin's
Example Sentences
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Altogether there was the makin’s of as fine a fight as iver ye seen in your life.
From Humours of Irish Life by Various
Two bits' worth of makin's a week will help one lad make life endurable.
From A Yankee in the Trenches by Holmes, Robert Derby
I did think for a minute that ye had the makin’s of a man, but I apologize.”
From The Mesa Trail by Bedford-Jones, H.
"Rustle something for the makin's, and we'll have heat and a hot drink right smart," she called.
From Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods by Flower, Jessie Graham [pseud.]
Dere was cornshuckin's, logrollin's, syrup makin's, and cotton pickin's.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3 by Work Projects Administration
