at the first blush
Example Sentences
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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
It looks at the first blush as if the vessel is bound to stay here till she has rotted and the engine rusted away, but we are not going to despair.
From Steve Young by Fenn, George Manville
This idea of the anti-revolutionary speculators was not so extravagant as might have been supposed at the first blush.
From The Gods are Athirst by Jackson, Emilie
In this matter we will—not superciliously, but in fair spirit—compare pedigrees with England, and strange as it may seem at the first blush, not without some claim to equality.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman
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 Twidle, Arthur
