1851 Sept. 277/1 The dexterously selected glittering word-images of Emerson's most highly finished sentences.
1892 1 681 The firm association between the sight and word image and the muscle sensations.
1940 16 Jan. 18/3 Reading consists of recognizing word images, whether they are such simple shapes as ‘2’, ‘I’, ‘a’, or such complex images as are formed by the seven letters of the word ‘through’.
2000 Dec. 12/4 My response translates into fragments of word-images, memories and sometimes brief, fantastic narratives of my own.