CHRISTIAN 
 
 
of Edward Christian.-Sir W. Scott, Pev- 
eril of the Peak (time, George II.). 
 
  Christian (Fletcher), mate of the Bounty, 
under the command of captain Bligh, and 
leader of the mutineers. After setting the 
captain and some others adrift, Christian 
took command of the ship, and, according 
to lord Byron, the mutineers took refuge 
in the island of Toobouai (one of the So- 
ciety Islands). Here Torquil, one of the 
mutineers, married Neuha, a native. After 
a time a ship was sent to capture the mu- 
tineers. Torquil and Neuha escaped, and 
lay concealed in a cave; but Christian, 
Ben Bunting, and Skyscrape were shot. 
This is not according to fact, for Christian 
merely touched at Toobouai, and then, with 
eighteen of the natives and nine of the 
mutineers, sailed for Tahiti, where all soon 
died except Alexander Smith, who changed 
his name to John Adams, and became a 
model patriarch.-Byron, The Island. 
 
  Christian Doctor (Most), John Char- 
hier de Gerson (1363-1429). 
 
  Christian Eloquence (The Founder of), 
Louis Bourdaloue (1632-1704). 
 
  Christian King (Most). So the kings 
of France were styled. Pepin le Bref was 
so styled by pope Stephen III. (714-768). 
Charles II. le Chauve was so styled by the 
Council of Savonnibres (823, 840-877). 
Louis XI. was so styled by Paul II. (1423, 
1461-1483). 
 
  Christian'a (ch = k), the wife of Chris- 
tian, who started with her children and 
Mercy from the City of Destruction long 
after her husband's flight. She was under 
the guidance of Mr. Greatheart, and went, 
therefore, with silver slippers along the 
thorny road. This forms the second. part 
of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress (1684). 
 
 
  Chris'tie (2 syl.) of the Clint Hill, one 
of the retainers of Julian Avenel (2 syl.). 
-Sir W. Scott, The Monastery (time, Eliz- 
abeth). 
 
  Chris'tie (John), ship-chandler at Paul's 
wharf. 
  Dame Nelly Christie, his pretty wife, car- 
ried off by lord Dalgarno.-Sir W. Scott, 
Fortunes of Nigel (time, James I.). 
 
  Christi'na, daughter of Christian II. 
king of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. 
She is sought in marriage by prince Arvi'- 
da and by Gustavus Vasa; but the prince 
abandons his claim in favor of his friend. 
After the great battle, in which Christian 
is defeated by Gustavus, Christina clings 
to her father, and pleads with Gustavus 
on his behalf. He is sent back to Den- 
mark, with all his men, without ransom, 
but abdicates, and Sweden is erected into 
a separate kingdom.-H. Brooke, Gustavus 
Vasa (1730). 
 
  Christina Purcell, a happy, pure girl, 
whose sheltered life and frank innocence 
contrast strongly with the heavy shadows 
glooming over outcast " Nixy" in Hedged 
In. 
  She [Nixy], looking in from the street at mother 
and child, wondered if the lady here and the white 
daughter were religious; if it were because peo- 
ple were white and religious that they all turned 
her from their doors,-then, abruptly, how she 
would look sitting in the light of a porcelain 
lamp, with a white sack on.-Elizabeth Stuart 
Phelps, Hedged In (1870). 
 
  Chris'tine (2 syl.), a pretty, saucy young 
woman in the service of the countess Marie, 
to whom she is devotedly attached. After 
the recapture of Ernest (" the prisoner of 
state"), she goes boldly to king Frederick 
II., from whom she obtains his pardon. 
Being set at liberty, Ernest marries the 
 
 
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