At approximately fourteen years of age, he had developed into an impressive, strapping young lad.

Three doors along a great big strapping lad.

Someone who, for preference, was a big strapping lad but short on brains.

If she had a man, things would be different Someone who, for preference, was a big strapping lad but short on brains.

While a strapping young lad hitched the cart to a pony, she quickly changed into what must have been his clothes a few years earlier.

Her 19-year-old grandson Sinclair - a big strapping lad - sometimes comes and helps.

He was followed by five handsome strapping lads, his sons, and their mother, a fine tall woman.

Is that why he was called "a big, strapping lad" as a young man?

He was a strapping lad, massive across the shoulders, but surly.

"Didn't seem as if she had much chance to do that, sandwiched between two strapping lads like you and Terry."