lad

• The more I saw of him the more I liked him, and wondered how so well-mannered a lad could be the son of such a man as Captain Grimes I saw nothing of London. —  Happy Jack and other Tales of the Sea
• She had been seen walking one moonlight night with a young lad at Bangor: the lad was her nephew; but some one had perhaps jested about Miss Todd and her beau, and since that time she was always talking of eloping with her own flesh and blood But Miss Todd was not a bad woman. —  The Bertrams
• This lad is my young lieutenant, who, like the rest, was sick of the vagaries of such a tyrannical old wretch as you You dog!" —  Sail Ho! A Boy at Sea
• To appease his wounded pride, I demanded of you an apology, as the lad was my guest and near kinsman--no very great sacrifice of pride, one would have thought, to a penniless pensioner on my bounty. —  The Monctons: A Novel, Volume I
• Oh, I--I'm just learning," was the boy's modest reply You seem to have learned pretty well," said a voice at his elbow Turning the lad was astonished to find Mr. Curtis standing just behind him I must own up to being an eavesdropper," laughed the older man. —  The Story of Glass

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