take by storm

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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

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.

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

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

All scholasticism is an attempt to take by storm; the authority pretends to explain itself, but only pretends, and its deference is merely illusory.

From Amiel's Journal by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.