ungrown

Example Sentences

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I wonder how people can toil and deny themselves for ungrown children!

From A Daughter of Fife by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

He set forward eagerly 2870 From his own home and Isaac with him, The child ungrown, as charged by his God.

From Old English Poems Translated into the Original Meter Together with Short Selections from Old English Prose by Various

I carry food to my callow chicks whose wings are yet ungrown.

From The Art of the Story-Teller by Shedlock, Marie L.

"You see we've only got four young gentlemen and one ungrown," said Lily; "and they will look so stupid standing up all properly in a room, as though we had a regular party."

From The Small House at Allington by Trollope, Anthony

The voices of children, grown and ungrown, go up from all the meadows around; and wit and wisdom are wafted over the surface of our river at eventide.

From Deerbrook by Martineau, Harriet