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Initially, at the start, as in At first the berries were green, but when they ripened they turned bright red . [Second half of 1500s]

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My attachment to the song became especially pronounced last Christmas, when I had my first love-at-first-sight experience.

Even Mr. Seward, cautious and conservative diplomat as he was, at-first "opposed any concession or surrender of the prisoners."

It was a sudden smite,—one of those flash-in-the-pan, love-at-first-sight affairs.

She recollected her love-at-first-sight for the pretty bride, and well-nigh regarded the friendship as a romance of her girlhood.

And it was always the same round-faced, beamy-looking girl—not Miss Cross-at-first, certainly.

It was—the light was full in her face, and she was frowning just the sort of way I remembered—it was Miss Cross-at-first!

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