Nereid

Example Sentences

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She looks like a nereid, guarding the sea behind her, ready to kick away underwater when it rushes in.

From The New Yorker • May 19, 2017

“I’m part nereid; on my father’s side, some generations back. The salt water does this: see. It only lasts a minute, but it shows.”

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

“We need to go. It may return. Ready?” said the nereid.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

After she had bestowed her veil, the nereid dove like a gull to windward where a dark waveside closed over her whiteness.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

Meanwhile the nereid swam from the lap of Ocean laden with four sealskins, new flaved for the hoax she thought of playing on her father.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer