take by storm
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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
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 Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)
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 Porterfield, Allen Wilson
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.
They arouse, even take by storm our imaginations and shake us out of our equanimity.
From Music: An Art and a Language by Spalding, Walter Raymond
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