take by storm
Example Sentences
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Aye, but now Take heed, my Chremes, lest ere you receive The maid from me, you lose her! for ’tis she, Whom now the Captain comes to take by storm.
From The Comedies of Terence by Colman, George
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)
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
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
I'll take by storm, then, my domestic bliss.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno
