"And can you not think it is hard for a good parent to imagine herself under the unhappy necessity of so treating her woman-grown daughter?"
"I was bound out in Michigan state until I was woman-grown."
"But by the bedside with the gleam of the candle upon her soft, beautiful hair, and her face, which Kirsteen thought was like the face of an angel, stood Jeanie, Jeanie woman-grown, the beauty that all her sisters had expected her to be, radiant in colour and expression."