take by storm
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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 Allen Wilson Porterfield
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 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 Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy
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
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 Fergus Hume
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