in one's blood
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Perhaps then, being an author is just in one's blood.
From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2022
The influence of summer is like a poison in one's blood, with a sudden bewildered sickening of life and all things.
From Aesthetic Poetry by Walter Pater
For, if this poison be simply smothered in one's blood instead of being wholly eradicated and cured, it will be sure to seize upon the offspring and either destroy them before birth or during dentition.
From Plain Talks on Avoided Subjects by Henry Newell Guernsey
And one knows it all in one's blood, it is pure, sun-dried memory.
From Twilight in Italy by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
In fact, to some of us, now in manhood, there is scarcely a greater pleasure of the senses than to gratify "the savage in one's blood," and lead a wild life in the woods.
From The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them by Charles Loring Brace
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