water nymph

First, a naiad is a water nymph in Greek myth—a woman who looked over the waterways.

At the wedding of Thetis, a water nymph, all the gods and goddesses except Eris were seated at the banquet.

But Miss Patience, shut up in the back part of the carriage like a water nymph in her cave, still wept hysterically.

The odalisk appears like a rosy water-nymph swinging on a bright lotus-leaf over a fountain of liquid rubies.

She twisted and turned like a white water-nymph that had risen from the stream.

She looked like a water nymph herself, so much of her time had been spent in her beloved water.