5 Metaphors for artifices

It is well known that artifice is the resource of cunning, whether it acts on the principle of concealing truth or boldly asserting falsehood.

The first artifice of shallow courtiers is to elude with promises those complaints which they cannot confute, a practice that requires no understanding or knowledge, and therefore has been generally followed by the administration.

The most difficult artifice to deal with, however, was the introduction by the Germans of a delay action device in their mines, which caused them to remain at the bottom for varying periods after being laid.

The artifice of the Queenthe scorn of Bourbonand the Queen's meditated vengeance are powerfully wrought: BOURBON.

Artifice is, indeed, one more source of perplexity: it is the interest of that man whose cause is bad to speak unintelligibly in the defence of it, and of him whose actions cannot bear to be examined, to hide them in disorder, to engage his pursuers in a labyrinth, that they may not trace his steps and discover his retreat; and what intricacies may be produced by fraud cooperating with subtilty, it is not possible to tell.

5 Metaphors for  artifices