They call themselves the faithful, and do not understand how weak, how cowardly is their faith, how foreign to them is the spirit of the apostle, which probes all things.
"The Saint"
Antonio Fogazzaro Commentator: William Roscoe Thayer
Here he is no longer content with exquisite visions, alluring or haunting images; he probes into the soul of man and lays bare all his joys and his sorrows.
"Wisdom and Destiny"
Maurice Maeterlinck
Then he bent over Young and inserted on of the probes into the wound.
"The Spirit of the Border A Romance of the Early Settlers in the Ohio Valley"
Zane Grey