The phrase "a small lad" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a young boy or male child, often emphasizing his size or age.
Example: "In the village, there was a small lad who was known for his adventurous spirit and curiosity."
Alternatives: "a little boy" or "a young lad."
Back on 4, Tiger has hit a small lad with his second, and signs a glove for the wee unfortunate.
As a small lad I would arrive from the big smoke and be left to run around my grandparents' Derbyshire garden in the quaintly named Two Dales.
The dull thump and clank of a small lad kicking his ball against the gates and the chatter of two women and a little girl broke through the mid-morning calm as we arrived outside the three-bedroom council house.
The blade was far too big for a small lad – the equivalent of a man trying to square cut with a sledgehammer – but I coveted it so much that one day, on one of his rare visits to stay with us in London, he appeared through the smoke and steam along the platform at Euston with his case in one hand and the bat in the other.
This is something I have dreamt about since I was a small lad," Madden, 23, told the Yeovil website. .
Since he was an unusually small lad, he had been mainlining Greek and Roman poetry.
Celebrities face off in Soccer Aid match, raising millions for children MANCHESTER, United Kingdom, 29 May 2012 – It looked like a script from Hollywood: the small lad face-to-face with the six-foot-plus enforcer.
He was a small, puny lad who acted the fool at school to stop himself being bullied.
Keith trotted at her side, a small, thin lad, in his white leather zip-up jacket, his jeans and black plastic shoes.
A small English lad ran on to the pitch to celebrate, and was cuffed round the ear by irate Argentina striker Oscar Más, who may well at that point have been visualising his foolish captain.
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