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Definition of Artifices
1. artifice [n] - See also: artifice
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Literary usage of Artifices
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Philosophy of Natural History: With an Introduction and Various by William Smellie, John Ware (1851)
"MANY instances of the dexterity and artifices of different animals, in various
parts of ... The artifices practised by animals proceed from several motives, ..."
2. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin (1909)
"... a Butterfly— Entomology — Ants—Wasp killing a Spider — Parasitical Spider—artifices
of an Epeira—Gregarious Spider—Spider with an unsymmetrical Web. ..."
3. The History of the United States for 1796: Including a Variety of by James Thomson Callender (1797)
"Federal artifices to promote a French quarrel. ... AMONG other artifices employed
by the federal party to ..."
4. Memoirs of the Duke of Sully: Prime Minister to Henry the Great by Maximilien de Béthune Sully, Walter Scott (1890)
"... oppose the registration of the Edict of Nantes—Alterations made in it—Assembly
of the Protestants—artifices of the Duke of Bouillon on this occasion—The ..."
5. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"... by a Butterfly— Entomology —Ants—Wasp killing a Spider — Parasitical
Spider—artifices of an Epeira—Gregarious Spider—Spider with an unsymmetrical Web. ..."
6. The History of England from the Accession of James II by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, Henry Hart Milman (1864)
"... should be taken into custody, f Meanwhile the unquiet brain of Monmouth was
teem- artifices ing with strange designs. He had now reached a time mouth. ..."
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