Besides, there's that half-grown lout, Amiel Perdue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper] Reference

He picked off easily enough the two half-grown ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Star Born] Reference

A half-grown son of the house was put in charge of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.] Reference

Even the joyful bellow of his next-door neighbour, a half-grown.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference

Bushmen returned to camp dragging between them a half-grown baboon.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa] Reference

A lanky, half-grown lad stuck his head in at the opening to shrill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper] Reference

Several rough half-grown young rowdies had pretended to offer to assist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Afloat on the Flood] Reference

There were a half dozen mother walrus with half-grown young about them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eternal Maiden] Reference

A-tos-sa had a half-grown bird by the wing and was trying to swallow it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magic Speech Flower or Little Luke and His Animal Friends] Reference

Frank believed he had never seen such remarkable grace in any half-grown lad.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saddle Boys of the Rockies Lost on Thunder Mountain] Reference

One day last summer it caught a rat in the yard as big as a half-grown kitten.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harper's Young People, February 17, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference

Right across the road from the house was a half-grown windbreak of golden willow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916] Reference

In addition was one house of ten pens for half-grown chickens and fattening fowls.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm] Reference

The original herd comprised Apollo, six cows and four calves, or half-grown cattle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island] Reference

With his pale face and half-grown beard, and his head bound up, he is a pitiable object.    From Wordnik.com.  [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference

This was the mother, just as I had an ijee, and she's got half-grown cubs around somewhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outdoor Chums After Big Game Or, Perilous Adventures in the Wilderness] Reference

They dug their potatoes before they were half-grown, for the sake of having something to eat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference

"Sallie was in, ditto five of her half-grown brood, and all full of fight," the boy continued.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saddle Boys in the Grand Canyon or The Hermit of the Cave] Reference

From it they had, of course, hurriedly fled, leaving their cow and a half-grown colt in the yard.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson] Reference

Your mother's dead and what you remember as a half-grown girl won't go very far in a court of law.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicken Little Jane] Reference

Natchez the half-grown slave boys got together on Sunday afternoons, and drilled with sticks for guns.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference

When quite a pup, hardly half-grown, he played a trick unaccountable to me at this day as it was then.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859] Reference

Upon well-ordered plantations punishments were rare, I may say unknown, except to the half-grown youths.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plantation Sketches] Reference

Maxwell, then a half-grown boy, lived with his mother in a lonely cottage in a quiet Dumfriesshire glen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of the Border Marches] Reference

One rarely sees one now, as tall and as big as a half-grown calf, with a coat of wonderful black, curly hair.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Portrait of Old George Town] Reference

I remember weeping bitterly when I heard it was to be torn down; even then, a half-grown girl, I loved old houses.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Portrait of Old George Town] Reference

They are like the beautiful, blushing, half-grown fruit that falls before its time because its core is gnawed out.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859] Reference

Just as he emerged from the imposing doorway of the house of the governor of police, he was jostled by a half-grown boy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference

Several times during the months of January and February I introduced into the jar a number of half-grown larvæ of the harvester.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference

The addition of a little salted meat to the half-grown potatoes and the stony bread is a luxury of only the most prosperous years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876] Reference

A half-grown chicken, startled by his silent approach, sprang out of the hedge and fluttered in front of his wheel, clucking madly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jack of Both Sides The Story of a School War] Reference

The half-grown girl -- narrow-chested, round shouldered, and sallow -- had been taken by Mrs. Atterson from some charity institution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hiram the Young Farmer] Reference

Afterwards he wondered himself how he had ever accomplished such a feat, because it did look far beyond the power of a half-grown lad.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Strange Cabin on Catamount Island] Reference