take by storm

Example Sentences

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Mrs. Vand scorned such Fabian tactics, and did her best to take by storm the position she felt that her wealth and personality deserved.

From The Solitary Farm by Hume, Fergus

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 at the other end of the bridge the old Roman walls of London itself were far too strong for our force to take by storm.

From King Olaf's Kinsman A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against the Danes in the Days of Ironside and Cnut by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)

Fortune—The aggregate ov possibilitys; a goddess whom cowards count by stealth, but whom brave men take by storm.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.

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