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
"He said to me, 'Watch your Kate close, and, at the first blush of a rival, say you to her, Part with him, or part with me.'"
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 by Various
He put the question from the Toorak point of view, and at the first blush was appalled by it.
From A Humble Enterprise by Cambridge, Ada
Such pretensions may at the first blush seem exaggerated; they were justified in this instance, the amateurs being acknowledged to be the equals of the professionals by every unbiassed critic.
From An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections by Albert D.
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
