makin's

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I make 'em everywhar: any one on the top o' the earth who's got the makin's of a man kin call me friend.

From Stories from Everybody's Magazine by Various

You've got the makin's of what the newspapers call a Leading Citizen, even if you did fall down once.

From Buttered Side Down: Stories by Ferber, Edna

“Miss Shirley,” he said gravely, “I ain’t got much style nor sentiment in my makin’s, but I’ve honestly tried to be humane by widders an’ orphans.

From Winning the Wilderness by Marchand, J. N.

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.

"It's nothin' but what ye desarve, avick! an' more nor that—yer the makin's of a clargy I'm guessin'?"

From The Station; The Party Fight And Funeral; The Lough Derg Pilgrim Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by Carleton, William