take by storm
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This modern Portia, after a preliminary survey of the premises which she was to take by storm, quickly determined upon a plan of action.
From John Marsh's Millions by Arthur Hornblow
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
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
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