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

One might fancy at the first blush, that such a boy is one to be envied, admired, and caressed above all others.

From Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life by Reed, Talbot Baines

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

Undoubtedly at the first blush it is a cheerful scene that first meets our eye. 

From The Night Side of London by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)

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