The skeleton, found near Lake Turkana in Kenya, was "a strapping youth" who lived 1.6 million years ago.

The handsome, strapping youth nodded fiercely, his hands still fumbling beneath his shabby tunic.

But as a strapping youth with quick fists, he was better known as a prizefighter.

A strapping youth sprawled in the deep tub, taking no notice of her except to move slightly, allowing her enough space to pour the water without burning him.

Here ye be, a strapping youth of three-and-twenty, not yet knighted.

He pointed out his friends and asked his brother, a strapping youth as muscular as Little Mo was skinny, to stand up.

The crack of the breaking branch was louder than either of the drums, and the strapping youth stumbled forward, his eyes glassy.

Kathy's brother, Jimmy Conners, was a big, strapping youth who genuinely liked George.

The one on her left was an old man, and the one on her right was a young, strapping youth, both as nude as she was.

Between these two helpless, recumbent images stands a strapping youth, wearing a headband and with a chain tattooed on the bicep turned toward the viewer.