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

So deeply impressed upon her memory were the tones of the convent-bell which had awakened the pupils at the first blush of dawn, that they had aroused her, this morning also, from her slumbers.

From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Auerbach, Berthold

Wherefore neither of the two mighty artists attract at the first blush.

From Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music by Gounod, Charles

For though after their nuts these Polynesians will climb palm trees like squirrels; yet, at the first blush, they decline a ship's mast like Kennebec farmers.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Melville, Herman

I would not believe it at the first blush.

From My Lady Rotha A Romance by Weyman, Stanley J.