ungrown

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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

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

It is in the scenes of vehement passion, of ardour and of agony, that we feel the comparative weakness of a yet ungrown hand, the tentative uncertain grasp of a stripling giant. 

From A Study of Shakespeare by Gosse, Edmund

Were not the other children, like the white image of Sleep, especially the naked child Alcmaeon, of ivory? with Alcestis and Helen, and that one of the Dioscuri whose beard was still ungrown?

From Greek Studies: a Series of Essays by Pater, Walter

Their faults were to be held as "the disproportions of the ungrown giant."

From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I by Fuller, Margaret