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in blood

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in your blood
as a basic part of your qualities or characteristics. She always seemed to be acting, but she had the theatre in her blood, and performing was as natural for her as breathing.
Related vocabulary: born to do something
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His instance is, that for the achieving of a desperate conspiracy, a man should not rest upon the fierceness of any man's nature, or his resolute undertakings; but take such an one, as hath had his hands formerly in blood.
We bore her home, all mangled and drenched in blood, and knelt by her and listened to her broken and wandering words, and prayed for her passing spirit, and there was no comfort - nor ever will be, I think.
Our boasted civilization is based upon blood, soaked in blood, and neither you nor I nor any of us can escape the scarlet stain.
 
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