Would you believe, Jack-that he laughed and said it was an old story; that Garry had no business to be speculating; that he had told him a dozen times to keep out of the Street; that if Garry had any collaterals of any kind, he would loan him ten thousand dollars or any other sum, but that he had no good money to throw after bad.
"Peter A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero"
F. Hopkinson Smith
Galton's theory, that potentialities not utilized by individuals or by their direct descendants may miss a generation or two, opens a wide field of thought, and collaterals may draw from the original source what was never suspected.
"An Autobiography"
Catherine Helen Spence
More particularly, the sum of tendencies to act in a certain way, which we call "character," is often to be traced through a long series of progenitors and collaterals.
"Aphorisms and Reflections from the works of T. H. Huxley"
Thomas Henry Huxley