Nereid

How To Use Nereid In A Sentence

• She finds him dragged down into the depths by sea-creatures who are an amalgam of classical nereides and the malicious nixies and mermaids of northern folklore.
• £t notas fecumy heu fruflra 1 refpe6tat Athen Jam procul e fludu Minoia refpidt arva, florentisque videt jam Cydzdas, hinc Stropha quej Hinc finusy hinc flatio contra patet Henmone Linquitur ante alias longe gratiffinia Delos Nereidum matri, et Neptuno iEgaeo. P. Virgilii Maronis opera: emendabat et notulis illustr. G. Wakefield
• 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)
• As the branchiae found in Dendronereis and Dendronereides might not be homologous, he considered it wrong to unite the two genera in a subfamily.
• A fragment, long ago figured by Semper, showing a classical design of a nereid on a sea-horse, is so like the designs found on many ivories discovered in Egypt that we may probably assign it to Alexandria. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
• He spoke in the bantering tone which had become the habitual expression of his tenderness; but his eyes softened as they absorbed in a last glance the glimmering submarine light of the ancient grove, through which Undine's figure wavered nereid-like above him. The Custom of the Country
• Over the gilt balustrade surmounting the cornice lolled the figures of fauns, bacchantes, nereids and tritons, hovered over by a cloud of amorini blown like rose-leaves across a rosy sky, while in the centre of the dome Apollo burst in his chariot through the mists of dawn, escorted by a fantastic procession of the human races. The Valley of Decision
• He and Violet sing duets as the purple film displaces the glories of azure and gold, and the twilight shadows the dusky bits of wood, the frowning rocks, and the indentations of shore that might be nereid haunts. Floyd Grandon's Honor
• Nay, but when, their duty done, they shall lie at last in their Ausonian haven, from all that have outgone the waves and borne their Dardanian captain to the fields of Laurentum, will I take their mortal body, and bid them be goddesses of the mighty deep, even as Doto the Nereïd and Galatea, when they cut the sea that falls away from their breasts in foam. ' The Aeneid of Virgil
• A number of other volatile, low molecular mass compounds were found in the coelomic fluid of these and other nereid species and thought to play a role in their reproduction.