What is "artifices"

Usage examples of "artifices".

The profound stillness below was unlike the bold, restless movements of Cap, and it seemed to savor more of the artifices of an enemy.

I have ever heard, or imagined as possible, in the treachery and artifices of your people.

By that letter, which you committed to the charge of my worthy friend Joshua, the fatal veil was removed from my eyes, which had been so long darkened by the artifices of incredible deceit, and my own incurable misery fully presented to my view.