Paul Varderman is a lanky sixteen-year-old lad whose world is the coarse litter strewn grass of the playing fields of his run down city school somewhere in Northern England.

Fergie has a lot of faith in Wellbeck and on last nightâ s performance the lanky local lad looks like he has the makings.

He was a mere babe, five years old, when Bilbo came back from his journey; but he grew up a dark-haired and (for a hobbit) lanky lad, very much more of a Took than a Boffin.

The girl tossed her longbow to the lanky lad he'd seen her shooting with.

--on a lanky lad of fifteen.

If he's the same lad as before he'll take some filling, he's a lanky lad but thin as a rake.

It is nicknamed "der lange Lulatsch" ("the lanky lad") and is one of the best-known points of interest in the city of Berlin.

He wasn't entirely sure he could whip the lanky lad from a straight start.

She pushed forward a lanky blond lad of about fifteen with a sick expression and greenish face.

When I opened the lanky lad stood there grinning.