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

Their waters were embosomed together, and the corn-field was unharvested, the reed-bed was ungrown.

From Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)

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

Though joy be done with and grief be vain, Time shall not sever us wholly in twain; Earth is not spoilt for a single shower; But the rain has ruined the ungrown corn.

From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

With him entered Mr and Mrs Boyce, from the parsonage, with Dick Boyce, the ungrown gentleman, and two girl Boyces, who were fourteen and fifteen years of age.

From The Small House at Allington by Trollope, Anthony