take by storm
Example Sentences
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These redoubts were about three hundred yards in front of the British garrison, and Washington decided after consultation that they were of sufficient importance to take by storm.
From Lafayette by Martha Foote Crow
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 Henry W. Shaw
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 Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler
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 Mrs. Humphry Ward
They arouse, even take by storm our imaginations and shake us out of our equanimity.
From Music: An Art and a Language by Walter Raymond Spalding
