One of the ruses that was adopted at the battle of Loos was to project smoke forward for a few minutes until the enemy should become quite used to it, and then send out streams and waves of gas to take him unawares.
One of the best ruses is to let the enemy get hold of fake orders.
Any number of these ruses will occur to the minds of my readers, and I want to mention a few of them that we actually tried.
Qui s'excuse s'accuse" is applicable in this as well as in other ruses for hiding those sinister Bond aims and to pose as the guileless and victimized Boer nation.
Surely the officers and non-commissioned officers are right in testing by all manner of ruses the ability of the sentinels.
No little amusement --for such it was to me--has been afforded me by the manyruses they have adopted to prevent it.
Who could have told him, that gradually, and by the very force of circumstances, he would be led to overcome his repugnance, and to rival the ruses and the tortuous combinations of the wretches he was trying to reach?
To her passionate adjurations, to her tears, to her ruses even, Mlle.
He watched for them from a murderous shooting shelter, and invented incredible ruses to allure them nearer.
Then begins a warfare of ambushes and ruses with the band of gamekeepers, who, having the law on their side, always end by getting the better of those whose only argument of defence is the "natural right" of a man to destroy wild life.
He exhausted all the ruses and feints of the trade trying to touch me.
Since the landing the enemy had crept into our lines as spies, dressed in the uniforms of fallen men, and had been successful by various ruses in trapping more than one officer.
But in order to illustrate acts carried out as ruses some instances may be given.
Ruses of war or stratagems are deceit employed during military operations for the purpose of misleading the enemy.
Ruses are customarily allowed in sea warfare within the same limits as in land warfare, perfidy being excluded.
But rusesof war are also employed, and are very often the decisive factor, during battles.
Of ruses there are so many kinds that it is impossible to enumerate[316] and classify them.
Ruses by which he established himself in the eyes of others, not as he was but as he desired them to think him, had seemed to him then the product of a practical, superior nature.
They had developed a series of similar ruses to which they both adapted themselves like well rehearsed actors and which had for their object the bringing them into positions convenient for kisses and embraces.
Her perceptions, sharpened by the practical sensuality of her nature, saw through the little ruses by which Aubrey converted his slight deformities into a dignified whole.
These ruses were unsuccessful in the sectors of the assault battalions, but a similar one employed in the area of the regimental command post attracted some Japanese patrols, which were either destroyed or driven off.
In the consideration, therefore, of military stratagems, or rusesde guerre, it is best to conform entirely to the more restricted sense in which they are understood in modern parlance.
I can name the following as being seized by press gangs * * * * * Soon ruses were resorted to by the gay fellows who wandered after night fall in quest of amusement in the highways and byways.
For although he be a foolish beast he has many ruses and treasons to help himself.
A child is often driven into such ruses by the instinct of self-protection.
To begin with those little ruses and dissimulations which are said to appear almost from the cradle in the case of certain children, it is plainly difficult to bring them into the category of full-fledged lies.
These little ruses or "acted lies" seem at the worst to be attempts to put you off the scent in what is regarded as a private matter, and to have the minimum of intentional deception.
The enemy are also full of tricks and ruses for catching us by luring us into ambuscades.
This time, if I do not resort to the ruses of the trapper, I shall obtain no more than that, whereas I stand in need of at least a dozen.
Each has its ruses of war, its methods of attack, its methods of killing.
Clumsy in the extreme and founded on what seems like the absolute stupidity of Brer Fox and Brer Wolf and the others who are beguiled, these ruses always succeed.
Of primary importance in this category were the mystery ships already described, but there were also innumerable other ruses de guerre which increased its efficiency.
Neither character is drawn with the power of Strafford, but the play is largely built upon the same contrasts between personal devotion and political expediency, the untutored idealism of youth and the ruses or rigidity of age.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ruses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
