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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

Why, some of them are little quick-eyed boys, Some, pretty, ungrown maidens—children's children Of those who called me to the pastorate.

From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations by Lazarus, Emma

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)

The room thus illumined was that of a young girl with little time to spare and less money, and an ungrown individual taste not yet critical enough to throw off early loyalties.

From Nightfall by Pryde, 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