ungrown
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"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 Anthony Trollope
The voices of children, grown and ungrown, go up from all the meadows around; and wit and wisdom are wafted over the surface of our river at eventide.
From Deerbrook by Harriet Martineau
To the latter kind of soul, grown or ungrown, you can never give happiness, for there are not enough toys to supply everybody.
From More Toasts by Marion Dix Mosher
Their faults were to be held as "the disproportions of the ungrown giant."
From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I by Margaret Fuller
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 Edmund Gosse
