take by storm
Example Sentences
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Meanwhile the Mahdi, having failed to take by storm, laid siege to El Obeid, the chief town of Kordofan.
From The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan by Churchill, Winston
This modern Portia, after a preliminary survey of the premises which she was to take by storm, quickly determined upon a plan of action.
From John Marsh's Millions by Hornblow, Arthur
On the 13th of January 946, Abū Yazīd shut up Qā’im’s forces in Susa which he began to besiege, and attempted to take by storm.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various
If Dorothea was a genuine Döderlein, she would march straight to her objective, and take by storm the good and useful things of life.
From The Goose Man by Porterfield, Allen Wilson
And he realized with a pang that he, impudent in his libertinism, had entertained with a light heart the light hope in some audacious way to take by storm the love of this unknown woman.
From The Duke's Motto A Melodrama by McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)
