The master reaches for his pocket, ready to reward the useful lad with a gift of money.
Her grandfather is said to have gone out with the two lads (line 317).
The lad, nothing loath, would declaim before them, more often than not in a mock heroic strain that greatly delighted his workmates.
In the absence of proper attachments, young lads simply held the pieces to be machined.
Going to sea was also a great adventure for a young lad.
When it concerned lads and maids under the age of 15, wages were paid to the father, but otherwise to the servant him/herself.
I'll be putting the lad through three years at university.
In the words of one witness, the lad and his gang 'exercised a veritable terror on the neighbourhood'.
