"Christian name" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... have started? "Page" is my Christian name. And I was to call her "Margery"? For just the briefest moment I wondered if my first impression of my companion could have been amiss. But I rallied my self-command and such shreds of gallantry as my life and my convictions ...
— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 • Various
... known unto all of you that to find your own portrait and the fashion of your hat or bonnet, your Christian name and the Alphabet ...
— Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 • Edward William Cole
... Albany was, like his royal brother, named Robert. The Christian name of the latter had been John until he was called to the throne; when the superstition of the times observed that the name had been connected with misfortune in the lives and reigns of John of England, John of France, and John Baliol ...
— The Fair Maid of Perth • Sir Walter Scott
... addressed him by his Christian name for the first time since he had been in the house and his voice was more friendly when he ...
— Okewood of the Secret Service • Valentine Williams
... he went with his godson to Notre Dame de Paris, where he prayed the first priest he met to administer baptism to his friend, and this was speedily done; and the new convert changed his Jewish name of Abraham into the Christian name of Jean; and as the neophyte, thanks to his journey to Rome, had gained a profound belief, his natural good qualities increased so greatly in the practice of our holy religion, that after leading an exemplary life he died in the ...
— The Borgias - Celebrated Crimes • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
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