ungrown

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

From Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

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

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

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

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)