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It was a cruel thing to marry her thus early, ungrown in body or mind, but she had no one to care for her before she was brought hither. 

From A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

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

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

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)

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