Further advertising resulted in the recruitment of a "tall, skinny lad", Jim Stynes.

There were just these two blokes, skinny lads with floppy hairdos, poncing about the place.

After all, the license to hit was exactly what had electrified him when he took the game up as a "skinny, shaggy-haired, 13-year-old lad from Devon."

My opponent was a tall, skinny lad, who moved quickly but was almost entirely defensive.

A skinny, gawky lad, he'd reveled in the identity his school grades had given him, realizing it was the one thing he was better at than most.

He was still a skinny lad, but seemed to have grown a couple of inches in the months since she had last seen him.

So it was that I awaited Swift, a skinny lad of ten summers, as, nervously as if I faced the boy's father.

He tossed a shilling to the boy who'd watched Plato, and the skinny lad ran off to show the piece of silver to his mates.

A skinny lad from Berwick made his debut in 1972.

"Thank you, dear," Marmion said to the skinny lad.