ungrown

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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

"A promise—a promise made by an ungrown girl to a brute—a thief—!"

From The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking by Cabell, James Branch

The ungrown girl was standing in the middle of the room.

From Peccavi by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)

Their waters were embosomed in one place, the corn-stalk was ungathered, the marsh-plant ungrown.

From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)

The inequality of his various productions may be compared to the disproportions of the ungrown giant.

From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various