He discussed some topics of the day with brilliant force, and then he suddenly digressed to a subject only Collaterally connected with trade.
"Daniel Defoe"
William Minto
Born at Launceston, Cornwall, January 21, 1805, he was a member of the Peter family of Devon and Essex, which produced in former times the remarkable Sir William Peter or Petre, to which has been ascribed the noted Hugh Peter or Peters, and from which Collaterally are descended the present Lords Bathurst and Petre.
"The History of the Medical Department of Transylvania University"
Robert Peter
He was in person a little man; extremely spare; with a sharp keen, hungry look; a grey hawk's eye, which, like the cat's, seemed to enjoy the best vision Collaterally, for the pupil was almost always at the junction of the eyelids.
"Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX"
Alexander Leighton