Pierre, Or The Ambiguities - pg. 154

Instantly the room was populous with sounds of melodiousness, and
mournfulness, and wonderfulness; the room swarmed with the unintelligible but
delicious sounds. The sounds seemed waltzing in the room; the sounds hung
pendulous like glittering icicles from the corners of the room; and fell upon
him with a ringing silveryness; and were drawn up again to the ceiling, and hung
pendulous again, and dropped down upon him again with the ringing silveryness.
Fire-flies seemed buzzing in the sounds; summer-lightnings seemed vividly yet
softly audible in the sounds.