ungrown

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I carry food to my callow chicks whose wings are yet ungrown.

From The Art of the Story-Teller by Shedlock, Marie L.

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 Hereafter is the same as Here, only larger; as things grown are larger than things ungrown.

From How Deacon Tubman and Parson Whitney Kept New Year's And Other Stories by Murray, W. H. H. (William Henry Harrison)

In any vigor, the element of the moral conscience, the most important, the verteber to State or man, seems to me either entirely lacking, or seriously enfeebled or ungrown.

From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Whitman, Walt

"You see we've only got four young gentlemen and one ungrown," said Lily; "and they will look so stupid standing up all properly in a room, as though we had a regular party."

From The Small House at Allington by Trollope, Anthony