I know that sounds a bit hard, but he was always an ambitious lad.

A bright and ambitious lad, Mike was able to continue his studies due to scholarships and almost as many odd jobs as Dustin would later have.

"Aye, well, he always was an ambitious lad, was Phil."

Our Tentimes is an ambitious lad.

"That Toric, who stayed behind in the Southern Hold, maybe he could use a strong, active, energetic, ambitious lad or two, or three?"

He was an ambitious lad.

He explains to his fellow-apprentice Rusty Roberts, a less ambitious lad:

Setting a car ablaze was a big deal for an essentially law-abiding, ambitious lad.

Carmina, an ambitious lad influenced by her peers is disgraced by her brothers illiteracy.

I've seen many ambitious young lads stake out and impregnate such daughters with marriage as their mutual goal.