CHRISTIAN'A (_ch = k_), the wife of Christian, 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, Elizabeth). _Chris'tie_ (_John_), ship-chandler at Paul's wharf. _Dame Nelly Christie_, his pretty wife, carried 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 Denmark, 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 people 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 countess.--E. Stirling, _The Prisoner of State_ (1847). CHRISTINE DRYFOOS, the undisciplined, showy daughter of a self-made man in W. D. Howells's _A Hazard of New Fortunes_ (1889). She was self-possessed because she felt that a knowledge of her father's fortune had got around, and she had the peace which money gives to ignorance. She is madly in love with Beaton, whose attentions have raised expectations he concluded not to fulfill. At their last meeting she felt him more than life to her, and knew him lost, and the frenzy that makes a woman kill the man she loves or fling vitriol to destroy the beauty she cannot have for all hers possessed her lawless soul.... She flashed at him, and with both hands made a feline pass at the face he bent towards her. CHRISTMAS TREASURES. Eugene Field, in _A Little Book of Western Verse_, gives a father's soliloquy over such treasures as The little toy my darling knew, A little sock of faded hue, A little lock of golden hair, all that remains to him who,