They were not birds but spirits-beings that lived in or were passing through the world and now, like the heat, made visible; and I, standing far out on the sparkling sands, with the sparkling sea on one side and the line of dunes, indistinctly seen as land, on the other, was one of them; and if any person had looked at me from a distance he would have seen me as a formless shining white being standing by the sea, and then perhaps as a winged shadow floating in the haze.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
All his senses were on the rack; and yet he could make out absolutely nothing of his whereabouts in this formless void of a world, with its opaque atmosphere, its distant calls, inquiries, warnings, its murky lamp-lights that only became visible when they were over one's head.
"Prince Fortunatus"
William Black
He sprang to his feet and went to the window, and gazed out into the black and formless chaos beyond.
"Prince Fortunatus"
William Black