All 3 Uses of
artifice
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- Dantes dug away the earth carefully, and detected, or fancied he detected, the ingenious artifice.†
Chpt 23-24 *
- Now listen to me, Maximilian; if by artifice, by entreaty, by accident—in short, if by any means I can delay this marriage, will you wait?†
Chpt 73-74
- The count's first idea was that this was an artifice—a gross deception, to draw his attention from a minor danger in order to expose him to a greater.†
Chpt 81-82
Definition:
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(artifice) deceptive behavior or something made for a purpose -- especially made to trick or deceive