Artifices
[ɑ:təfɪsiz]
Examples
- Public interest, education, and the artifices of politicians, have the same effect in both cases. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Who has not admired the artifices and delicate approaches with which women prepare their friends for bad news? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It must not be imagined that Mr. Pitt Crawley's artifices escaped the attention of his dear relations at the Rectory at Queen's Crawley. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Gentlemen, is the happiness of a sensitive and confiding female to be trifled away, by such shallow artifices as these? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- These are not its only artifices. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Do you forget his artifices, his cruelty, and fraud? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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