I myself had a nereid pointed out to me by my guide, and there certainly was the semblance of a female figure draped in white, and tall beyond human stature, flitting in the dusk between the gnarled and twisted boles of an old olive-yard.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz
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
The nereid nymphs, With wonder, groves, and palaces, and towns, Beneath the waves behold.
"The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II"
Ovid