at the first blush
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To look at the first blush of reconstruction down here in the 1990s is to grow nostalgic for a New York that moved at a different tempo.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2018
And this seems to me to be the principal reason why we can most rarely pronounce or repeat at the first blush, any word spoken in a foreign Language.
From The Talking Deaf Man A Method Proposed, Whereby He Who is Born Deaf, May Learn to Speak by Daniel Foot
I would not believe it at the first blush.
From My Lady Rotha A Romance by Stanley J. Weyman
The next day, at the first blush of morning light, he was aroused with the other slaves by Peter the Great, who, he found, was the Moor’s overseer of domestics.
From The Middy and the Moors An Algerine Story by Arthur Twidle
A thousand things which shock us at the first blush take on the guise of every-day matters when once we have acquired the habit of familiarity with them.
From Poise: How to Attain It by D. Starke
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