take by storm
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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
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 Kuno Francke
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
Meanwhile the Mahdi, having failed to take by storm, laid siege to El Obeid, the chief town of Kordofan.
From The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan by Winston Churchill
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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