Which preposition to use with artifices

of Occurrences 122%

It was an artifice of benevolence.

in Occurrences 16%

But Ulysses, whose first artifice in giving himself that ambiguous name, had succeeded so well with the Cyclop, was not of a wit so gross to be caught by that palpable device.

by Occurrences 11%

The mind is satisfied with a glimpse of that which it ought to have steadily contemplated; and any artifice by which the thought can be kept long enough before the mind, may indeed be a redundancy as regards the meaning, but is an economy of power.

with Occurrences 5%

Thus, day in, day out, was roar of conflict about the walls of Belsaye town, and ever Sir Benedict, with Beltane beside him, went to and fro, quick of eye and hand, swift to foresee and counteract the tactics of the besiegers, meeting cunning artifice with crafty strategem; wheresoever was panic or pressing need there was Sir Benedict, calm-voiced and serene.

for Occurrences 3%

Words are not names for particular things, but signs of general ideas; and abstracta nothing more than an artifice for facilitating intellectual intercourse.

on Occurrences 3%

She was sure that all these adventures proceeded from artifice on one side and weakness on the other.

of Occurrences 2%

In which the Artifices of designing Men are fully detected and exposed; and the Calamities they bring on credulous believing Woman, are particularly related," was given to the English public in 1742 as a work suited to inculcate the principles of virtue, and probably owed its being to the previous success of "Pamela."

at Occurrences 2%

Who more sorry now than these fawning wretches, when they found (as they thought) that lord Timon's poverty was all pretence, and had been only put on to make trial of their loves, to think that they should not have seen through the artifice at the time, and have had the cheap credit of obliging his lordship?

into Occurrences 2%

Put all your little artifices into effect.

than Occurrences 2%

Drake well knew that nothing but the love of their leaders could animate his followers to encounter such hardships as he was about to expose them to, and, therefore, rather chose to bring his designs to pass by artifice than authority.

beneath Occurrences 1%

But while we were indoors Bennett, the gardener, caught him by some simple artifice beneath James's notice.

before Occurrences 1%

I was not able to bring the artifice before the jury; the Crown had not discovered it, and Lamson's deep-laid scheme was nearly successful.

after Occurrences 1%

His mother, queen Eleanor, gained time by one artifice after another, till the king was calmed; he then heard the cause again, declared his son innocent, and punished his accusers with death.

as Occurrences 1%

To Hugo, the whole universe seemed to be alive, both as a whole and in each of its separate parts, and his way of humanizing the inanimate is not so much a conscious literary artifice as the natural habit of his imagination.

without Occurrences 1%

Where is the supremacy of mind and will, and all that nonsense, if a man can't amuse himself with a clever woman's artifices without tumbling into the snare he is watching?" "We'll see how you succeed with the charming widow,whether the wise man, when his own jecur is pierced with the arrow, may not show it, as well as other people.

IN Occurrences 1%

ARTIFICES IN RECITATIONS.The teacher of a small newly-established school had all of his scholars classed together in some of their studies.

like Occurrences 1%

It must, at least, sir, be observed of these great patrons of the people, that if they expect to gain them by artifices like this, they have no high opinion of their discernment, however they may sometimes magnify it as the last appeal, and highest tribunal.

Which preposition to use with  artifices