nereid

A fragment, long ago figured by Semper, showing a classical design of a nereid on a sea-horse, is so like the designs found on many ivories discovered in Egypt that we may probably assign it to Alexandria.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

A Cretan ballad, taken down about 1820-30, relates that a young peasant, falling in love with a nereid, was advised by an old woman to seize his beloved by the hair just before cock-crow, and hold her fast, whatever transformation she might undergo.

Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series Frank Sidgwick

A modern Greek tale narrates that a nereid, enamoured of a youth, and by him scorned, turned him into a snake till he should find another love as fair as she.

Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series Frank Sidgwick

Tam Lin, Introduction: the nereid cried out, ‘Let go my child, dog!’

Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series Frank Sidgwick

He spoke in the bantering tone which had become the habitual expression of his tenderness; but his eyes softened as they absorbed in a last glance the glimmering submarine light of the ancient grove, through which Undine's figure wavered nereid-like above him.

The Custom of the Country Edith Wharton 1899

Here and there a gentleman was teaching a lady to swim, with his arms round her; here and there a wild nereid was splashing another; a young Jew pursued a flight of naiads with a section of dead eel in his hand.

Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life) William Dean Howells 1878

Here and there a gentleman was teaching a lady to swim, with his arms round her; here and there a wild nereid was splashing another; a young Jew pursued a flight of naiads with a section of dead eel in his hand.

Literature and Life (Complete) William Dean Howells 1878

He and Violet sing duets as the purple film displaces the glories of azure and gold, and the twilight shadows the dusky bits of wood, the frowning rocks, and the indentations of shore that might be nereid haunts.

Floyd Grandon's Honor Amanda Minnie Douglas 1873

She listened until the sun set and night darkened upon the waters, then slowly retraced her way home, thinking every cloud that floated above her might be a messenger from Olympus, and that every fleck of foam was perhaps the little white hand of a nereid, sporting amid the waves.

The Magician's Show Box and Other Stories Lydia Maria Francis Child 1841

A nereid, or mermaid, was taken in the year 1403 in a Dutch lake, and was in every respect like a French woman, except that she did not speak.

Nightmare Abbey Thomas Love Peacock 1825