ungrown

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Their faults were to be held as "the disproportions of the ungrown giant."

From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I by Fuller, Margaret

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)

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

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

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

From Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature by Garrett, Edmund Henry