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

These start to grow at the first warm spell in the latter part of the Winter or at the first blush of Spring, and almost invariably become victims of frost and consequently produce no fruit.

From English Walnuts What You Need to Know about Planting, Cultivating and Harvesting This Most Delicious of Nuts by Allen, Walter Fox

Yet, taking everything into consideration, the death of his chief was a relief rather than otherwise to the lad, unfeeling though the statement may appear at the first blush.

From Harry Escombe A Tale of Adventure in Peru by Prout, Victor

Now, at the first blush, one would not think of any common ground of meeting for our Aunt Anniky and the Empress Josephine.

From The Wit of Women Fourth Edition by Sanborn, Kate

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 Foot, Daniel