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.
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.
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 McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)
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
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
