Meanings of sweet chimes in English

The sweet chimes ceased their fourfold phrasing, and the great bell began its spaced and solemn booming.

In the vale below, flocks were feeding; and from the hills I heard the sweet chimes of distant bells.

I groped in thick darkness, and time itself was only measured now by those sweet chimes, so like our own, and yet so far away.

"The clock is just striking the hour-listen," and obediently he listened, his eyes on Betty's face, while the sweet chimes filled the hall with melody.