Needless to say, such wiles could hardly go on forever.
The sociolinguistic nuance conveyed here is that of an old, rural person lacking the wiles of city-slick males, who use a high degree of slang.
Don't think of it, no, leave off those wiles!
Wiles, again, provides us with the sociopolitical context.
The magician needs special pockets, props, and equipment, and develops wiles to misdirect audience attention from the real sequence.
The thugs would deceive their prospective victims into joining them on the road by various wiles.
In addition to the tendency towards "unreasonable violence" that is produced by this indigestion, he is "in abject submission to the wiles of a multitude of fraudulent medicine men" (vi-vii).
My understanding is that they were not wholly convinced, despite her lures and wiles.
