ungrown

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I saw him hold Lord Percy at the point With lustier maintenance than I did look for Of such an ungrown warrior.

From King Henry IV, Part 1 by Shakespeare, William

Their waters were embosomed in one place, the corn-stalk was ungathered, the marsh-plant ungrown.

From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)

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

To-day Love's mute, but time hath sown A soul in her to match thine own, Though yet ungrown.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

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