ungrown

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The countess had never seen but one eagle, in the Jardin des Plantes at Paris, and that was a small one, and ungrown; so that her anticipations of novelty were as great as mine.

From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 by Clark, Lewis Gaylord

The inequality of his various productions may be compared to the disproportions of the ungrown giant.

From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various

The room thus illumined was that of a young girl with little time to spare and less money, and an ungrown individual taste not yet critical enough to throw off early loyalties.

From Nightfall by Pryde, Anthony

He set forward eagerly 2870 From his own home and Isaac with him, The child ungrown, as charged by his God.

From Old English Poems Translated into the Original Meter Together with Short Selections from Old English Prose by Various

A slender bride abiding in the lands He left in bower, with an ungrown child, And weapons masterless.

From Song and Legend from the Middle Ages by MacClintock, Porter Lander