in one's blood
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Perhaps then, being an author is just in one's blood.
From Salon • Jan. 1, 2022
With the opening of the baseball season, the sporting urge stirs in one's blood and we turn to such books as "My Chess Career," by J.R.
From Love Conquers All by Williams, Gluyas
It was I who built up for her the dream pictures of England—the England of my childhood—the London which, once it is in one's blood, is there forever.
From I Walked in Arden by Crawford, Jack
And one knows it all in one's blood, it is pure, sun-dried memory.
From Twilight in Italy by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
It comes to men on the Canadian prairies; it throbs in one's blood when the summit of a mountain is reached; it is borne on the wings of the twilight harmonies in a lonely forest.
From The Parts Men Play by Baxter, Arthur Beverley
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