nereids

• Daphne was a particular nymph in those stories, while nereids were a class of sea nymphs. —  Anime News Network
• Her ladies and gentlewomen also, the fairest of them were apparelled like the nymphs nereids (which are the mermaids of the waters) and like the Graces, some steering the helm, others tending the tackle and ropes of the barge, out of the which there came a wonderful passing sweet savour of perfumes, that perfumed the wharf's side, pestered with innumerable multitudes of people. —  The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece
• Pliny's nereids, 72 n error as to elephants shedding their tusks, 79 n error as to their antipathy to other animals, 85 error as to elephant's joints, 100 account of the machlis_, 101 n his knowledge of the vulnerability of the elephant's head, 144 n of fishes on dry land, 346 Ponnekella. —  Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon
• Perhaps he had come upon that gay retinue of nereids, joining it forever This absurd supposition that Ulysses mentally formulated with a sad and incredulous smile, frequently recurred in the simple thoughts of many of the people of the Marina They refused to believe in his death. —  Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel
• 1 Bold Marinell of Britomart Marinell > (A grandson of Nereus, who is father of the fifty nereids or sea-nymphs of the Mediterranean. —  The Faerie Queene — Volume 01

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