There never cam a man near ye, i' the w'y o' makin up til ye!
I daurna think, weel kennin 'at a'thing's aither ordeent or allooed, makin muckle the same.
But there was worse ahead: a feast was now preparing for the birthday of the little princess; and the tributary chiefs of Kuma and Little Makin were expected daily.
At either end stood up to sing, or sat down to rest, the alternate companies of singers; Kuma and Little Makin on the north, Butaritari and its conjunct hamlets on the south; both groups conspicuous in barbaric bravery.
At a word from Nakaeia's mouth the revel ended; Makinbecame once more an isle of slaves and of teetotalers; and on the morrow all the population must be on the roads or in the taro-patches toiling under his bloodshot eye.
But the Makin people had a better thought; and upon a fresh interruption turned and trooped out of the house.
It was the Makin company, rehearsing for the day of competition.
They were Makin people, I believe, probably staunch heathens, contemners of the missionary and his works.
At night in the dark, the singers ofMakin paraded in the road before our house and sang the song of the princess.
A chief in Little Makin asked, in an hour of lightness, 'Who is Kaeia?
To crown all, the Makin company began a dance of truly superlative merit.
Noo, sir, set to, and do me and yoursel credit bymakin a hearty supper.
An I don't mean to go makin friends with him again.
A fello what does that is makin a pig out of hisself I think.
Joe said he wasnt much at drawin but My gawd if he sat round makin a hog of hisself any longer theyd have to give it to him in a bed room.
I read the other day, Mable, that there makin the cups rough on the bottom now so youll think theres sugar in them.
We was makin a point of pickin up everything we saw and firin it down them.
The rest of the battalion had landed from submarines on Makin Island in the Gilberts on 17-18 August, destroying the garrison there.
Illustration: Sgt Clyde Thomason, who was killed in action participating in the Makin Island raid with the 2d Raider Battalion, was the first enlisted Marine in World War II to be awarded the Medal of Honor.
At either end stood up to sing, or sat down to rest, the alternate companies of singers; Kuma and Little Makin on the north, Butaritari and its conjunct hamlets to the south; both groups conspicuous in barbaric bravery.
A chief in Little Makin asked, in an hour of lightness, "Who is Kaeia?
Durin the past season, overskirts and p-an-ears have been looped up, makin the fair secks look as if she was gettin her garments in trim to leep over some frog-pond.
Thar warn't no sense in makin folks pay debts w'en ther warn't no money in cirk'lashun to pay em.
Some folks says they orter be a law makin propty a tender fer debts on a far valiation.
Twuz jess like makinthem ere chil'ren of Isr'el make bricks 'thout no straw.
It is certain that at one time his emoluments were great; he speaks of himself as "once glorified in worldly wellfulnesse, and having suche goods in welthe as makin men riche.
Think ye yer sittin there's a compliment to me, wha am blawing awa my lungs here, for the very purpose o' makin ye dance?
Otheller swallers Iago's lyin tail & goes to makin a noosence of hisself ginrally.
See how shameful he treated that hily respecterble injun gentlemun, Mister Otheller, makin him for to beleeve his wife was too thick with Casheo.
What sort of sense is thare to King Leer, who goze round cussin his darters, chawin hay and throin straw at folks, and larfin like a silly old koot and makin a ass of hisself ginerally?
I started out with the idear of makin my show a grate Moral Entertainment, but I'm kompeled to sware so much at that air infurnal Kangeroo that I'm frade this desine will be flustratid to some extent.
When my mother was dere helpin dem, dey used to been a week to a time tryin up lard en makin blood puddin en sausage en joinin up ears en things like dat.
Pa Cudjo say, he pray en he cuss en when he look up, he see a boat makin up de river wid two men in it en me lyin dere 'tween dem.
I houp no a'thegither, Miss Barton," replied I, makin an abortive attempt at a captivatin smile.
Davis, it is my decided opinion that the Sonny South is makin a egrejus mutton-hed of herself!
I plant a garden side de road en one night I hear somethin en I look out en dere was a great big black thing in me garden dat was makin right for de house.
You can' go dere to school wid no handful of bread makin all dem chillun start mouthin round you.
Slowly, slowly rase she up, An slowly put she on, An slowly gaed she doon the stair, Aye makin a heavy moan.
The firsten bower that he came till, There was right dowie wark; Her mither and her three sisters Were makinto Annie a sark.
The nexten bower that he came till, There was right dowie cheir; Her father and her seven brethren Were makin to Annie a bier.
Very astutely Mrs. Makin constituted the parents the judge as to the excellency of their children's attainments.
The rest of the article is taken up with an analysis of Lilly's Grammar, to show how slow and burdensome and distasteful are its methods, and to an analysis of the short cuts to knowledge devised by Mrs. Makin and Mr. Lewis.
Bathsua Makin said that higher education was not designed to make wives self-assertive, but more reasonably and intelligently submissive.
And the diatribes in the English feminist pamphlets from Bathsua Makinto "Sophia" show how many women in high circles boasted of ignorance as one of their charms.
Mrs. Makin is careful, however, to hedge in even this proposition with qualifications.
Hickes in his remarkable sermon in 1683, ten years after Mrs. Makinestablished her school, was not analyzed into details.
Mrs. Makin was really forced to get as many Biblical recruits as possible, since her opponents regularly massed their forces in the Garden of Eden with the Sin of Eve as their impregnable fort.
In all probability Mrs. Makin had charge of this institution.
O, you western men are such driving fellows, that you can't put up with our slow way of makin money.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "makin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
