Artifices

Usage examples of ruses.

Hal doubles over in a coughing spasm only half-faked, running decision-trees on various ruses for flight.

But their little ruses avail them nothing, for now Blumfeld himself climbs backward into the wardrobe and they have to follow him.

Who could have told him, that gradually, and by the very force of circumstances, he would be led to overcome his repugnance, and to rival the ruses and the tortuous combinations of the wretches he was trying to reach?