stratagems

All the miserable stratagems they had been guilty of to win him; the dishonest plotting and planning.

In their dark recesses were concocted those treasons, stratagems, and spoils that desolated the land.

All these stratagems were intended to shroud with impenetrable secrecy the mysteries of the brotherhood.

Mr. Caryll always expected every pupil to cheat and invented various stratagems to prevent this vice.

All the usual stratagems for grasping and plundering were put into practice.