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One of the Nereids (q.v.).
“The lovely Nysë and Neriʹnë spring,
With all the vehemence and speed of wing.”
Camoens: Lusiad, bk. ii.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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