The lap desk is both an antique and modern form.
There are two kinds of trestle desks, the antique form and the modern improvisation.
I wanted to show the coolness of the well, and meant that its antique form should suggest that many before her had come there to draw water.
"And we can take antique or classical forms and make them look well in the king-size form."
The antique forms are dead, despite the careful maintenance of the institutions; those institutions now have no meaning or weight.
Mister Gerswin," she commented in the antique form of address, "you did well, much better than anyone would have expected.
She spoke a strangely antique form of the Norwegian tongue.
For that meant 'Dwarf-delving' and yet was already word of antique form.
The lectern desk is composed of two distinct forms, antique and modern.
The antique form is usually made of fine woods and brass fittings.