A pale and ragged lad of fourteen or fifteen entered, made a neat bow.
Stone-faced, the stocky lad bent, unlaced his boot, and drew a yellowed parchment from a hidden flap within.
He was a decent scholar and mathematician, and taught pen as much as the lad was ever disposed to learn, which was not much.
Is he not a handsome lad? 'he continued.
I remember playing as a lad in France burying my little toy saber.
Staying childless would have kept me a lad. It would have made me more selfish, shallow, obsessed with my own pleasures and fulfilment.
The lad departed, and Durbey lay waiting on the grass and daisies in the evening sun.
As the lad stood in a dubious attitude, Durbeyfield put his hand in his pocket, and produced a shilling, one of the chronically few that he possessed.
The lad carried a lantern because the lane he took was dark.
This lad is a college of law graduate.
Partly because of his stammer, brought on by a fall through a roof as a lad, and partly because people from Hesket didn’t talk too much as a rule, he didn’t care to meet strangers.
That was a great advance for the lad.
It lagged behind because of its lame lap, so from time to time the lad waited for it to catch up with him.
For one lurid moment she saw Dot Magston in the arms of a lad she didn't know.
