ungrown

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With him entered Mr and Mrs Boyce, from the parsonage, with Dick Boyce, the ungrown gentleman, and two girl Boyces, who were fourteen and fifteen years of age.

From The Small House at Allington by Trollope, Anthony

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

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

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

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