Significados de many artifices en inglés

She loved attention, particularly the attentions of men, and employed many artifices to secure them, usually with success.

When business is dull in this locality, the "merchants" resort to many artifices to fill their coffers.

Thus we had many artifices to guard against; but thus had we likewise, very luckily for us, many a good meal gratis.

Or, why are so many witnesses summoned, and so many artifices practised, to discover what so easy an experiment would infallibly reveal?

This reflection troubled the excess of his pleasure, and that of the greatness and the power to which so many artifices had elevated him.