Mr. J. C. Lawson, who has very carefully investigated the folk-lore of modern Greece, says: 'The Nereids are conceived as women half-divine yet not immortal, always young, always beautiful, capricious at best, and at their worst cruel.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz
And when our painters show us these horses whose legs grow ever slimmer, these swans whose necks become ever rounder and longer, these vines whose leaves and branches grow ever more intricate with their lace-like edges and arabesques interwoven round still more exquisite birds, a matchless emotion rises within us such as a young Greek might have felt before a bas-relief crowded with fauns and nymphs or with Argonautes bearing off the Golden Fleece, or with Nereids sporting around the cup of Amphitrite.
"Underground Man"
Gabriel Tarde
The Nile changed its course in order to escape, and nymphs and Nereids in terror sought for the sanctuary of some watery place that had escaped destruction.
"A Book of Myths"
Jean Lang