take by storm
Example Sentences
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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.
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
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.
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 Crow, Martha Foote
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
