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

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

He thought of what the nereid had said; of the way that Gelifen breathed in her scent; of how the waybetween had opened exactly when she needed it.

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

The nereid smiled a sudden sharp-toothed smile and whistled—and from the waves emerged Nighthand and Irian, each riding a hippocamp.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell