1 He's a likely lad, and he's a Christian, which is more than these folk here, in spite o all their praying and preaching.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER III. JOHN FERRIER TALKS WITH THE PROPHET 2 And a steady lad he was, and a kind master he had to lend him a hand, and well he worked his own way forward to be rich and thriving.
3 The old man died last year from a fall; eighty-three, he was, an nimble as a lad.
4 When he was a lad of sixteen and she a woman of twenty-six.
5 But he'd been a nice lad, a nice lad, had helped her a lot, so clever at making things clear to you.
6 He was nice to me when he was a lad, after I lost Ted.
7 They'd lived next door to us when I was a little lad, so I knew 'em all right.'
8 His heart was warmed, his fancy fired, and he felt the highest respect for a lad who, before he was twenty, had gone through such bodily hardships and given such proofs of mind.
9 That he had terminated his brief career in the place of his birth, by making a sanguinary and cowardly attack on an unoffending lad, and running away in the night-time from his master's house.
10 They know what a clever lad he is; he'll be a lifer.
11 In an instant, the lad entered the room adjoining, and, under pretence of snuffing the candle, moved it in the required position, and, speaking to the girl, caused her to raise her face.
12 There had been something so tremendous in the shrinking off of the three, that the wretched man was willing to propitiate even this lad.
13 I had met her as a lad before I went away in this trade.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 4 The Halt on the Turnpike Road 14 The room was empty, the lad who acted as his factotum having gone to bed.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 5 Perplexity among Honest People 15 Except the daughter of one of the cotters, who was their servant, and a lad who worked in the garden and stable, scarcely anyone but themselves ever entered the house.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion