The tone, spun to a needle fineness, rushed up the fingerboard of the fiddles accompanied by the harp in a billowing glissando and-then on ragged rims of wide thunder a gust of air seemed to melt lights, men, instruments into a darkness that froze the eyeballs.
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker
A glissando of joy burned his eardrums, and he could not face that living splendor.
"Felony"
James Causey
Perhaps he wished to arouse us harshly from his dreamland, as was his habit while improvising for friends-a glissando would send them home shivering after an evening of delicious reverie.
"Chopin: The Man and His Music"
James Huneker