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But while the sons were searching among their stores, for something substantial to appease their hunger, and the younger fry were wrangling about their simple dishes, the parents of the unnurtured family were differently employed.

From The Prairie by Cooper, James Fenimore

Such colloquies have occupied many a pair of pale-faced weavers, whose unnurtured souls have been like young winged things, fluttering forsaken in the twilight.

From Silas Marner by Eliot, George

Wis 17:1 For great are thy judgments, and cannot be expressed: therefore unnurtured souls have erred.

From Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Apocrypha by Anonymous

Are we to be classed with the heathen in knowledge, or to be accounted as the unnurtured men who are known once to have roamed through these forests in quest of their game?

From The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish by Cooper, James Fenimore

The summons of the unnurtured squatter brought an immediate accession to their party.

From The Prairie by Cooper, James Fenimore