ruse vs sleight

ruse

noun
  • Cunning, guile, trickery. 

  • An action intended to deceive; a trick. 

verb
  • To deceive or trick using a ruse. 

sleight

noun
  • An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation. 

  • Cunning; craft; artful practice. 

  • Dexterous practice; dexterity; skill. 

How often have the words ruse and sleight occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )