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It follows Kit Herondale, Ty Blackthorn and Drusilla Blackthorn from The Dark Artifices series, as they are drawn into the final conflict between the side of demons and the side of angels.

From BBC • Dec. 24, 2025

I do not therefore find Fault with the Artifices above-mentioned when they are introduced with Skill, and accompanied by proportionable Sentiments and Expressions in the Writing.

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph

Artifices and stratagems are then no longer good for anything; they are very soon laid open to the light.

From Émile or, Concerning Education; Extracts by Steeg, Jules

Artifices of; retires to Sparta; intrigues of, against Athens; is condemned to death, but escapes; is recalled to Athens; is banished; death of.

From Mosaics of Grecian History by Willson, Marcius

They treat with contempt all writers who are unfortunately nec ponere lucum Artifices, nec rus saturum laudare.

From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron