nereid

• The new creatures seem to maintain the game's aquatic / crustacean theme with a strange sand-shark that leaps over Shanoa at the beginning of the trailer and what appears to be a nereid summoning a tidal wave toward its end. —  1UP RSS feed
• At the theatre a duchess; here a nereid, a nymph, a fairy. —  The Man Who Laughs
• 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 You never looked your name more than you do now," he said, kneeling at her side and putting his arm about her. —  The Custom of the Country
• 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
• This one is a nereid, a sea-nymph} hight > named Panope > "All Seeing" (Greek; she sees all the deeds enacted under her master's roof. —  The Faerie Queene — Volume 01

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