He passed through the storm-broken trees and to the far rim of the flat, where he stood a long time staring frowningly at one after another of the spires and ridges lifted against the sky, probing into the mystery of the night still slumbering in the ravines.

BELTON, indeed, hesitates a little, because matters go wrong between him and his Thomasine; and the poor fellow has not the courage to have his sore place probed to the bottom.

" His companion had glanced round now, keenly, as though to probe for the meaning which might lie beneath his words.

Later, I grew careless of danger, to the extent of plunging right through the bushes, probing with my gun barrel as I went.

Of late the old man's bodily health had mended suddenly, almost marvellously; but he remained vacant, childish in mind, and so far the authorities had retained him, hoping to probe in some way to the obscure, moving cause of his malady.

Impressions during the early years of childhood, probing of the unconscious by various methods, have been shown to be the most potent in this respect.

As he sat with Gloria and found little to say, he was conscious of her eyes probing at him when she thought that he did not see.

With a shout, I ran toward it; but, though I struck and probed among the bushes with my stick, I neither saw nor heard anything further; and so returned to Pepper.

" Maud sickened at the thought of having any of those sacred feelings connected with Robert Willoughby that she had so long cherished in her inmost heart, rudely probed by so unskilful a hand; though her last conversation with the young soldier had told so much, even while it left so much unsaid, that she could almost kneel and implore Mike to be explicit.

There was a faint wind stirring and it cut like a knife, probing through her garments where they were damp.

I'm going to create the biggest electromagnetic pulse this Solar System has ever seen, and BURN every last one of those probes out of the void!!

Have you got a probe about you?"

As we learn to appreciate historical connection and to probe beneath the surface of religions in course of development, we discover points of relationship and interdependency of which the simple believer never even dreams.