hothouse plant

Example Sentences

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He need not be a diseased oyster or a frail hothouse plant or an emotional prairie fire that scorches the earth searching for truth.

From Time Magazine Archive

Andy wilted at the end of his long speech like a hothouse plant in the frost.

From The Secret of the Storm Country by Hitchcock, Lucius W.

Now the Aster is not naturally a hothouse plant.

From The Mayflower, January, 1905 by Various

I'm quite as eager as you to discover how the transplanting of the hothouse plant into the hardy outdoor soil of the country has worked out.

From Under the Country Sky by Rogers, Frances

And she became very frightened that, some day, she might make Andrew a hothouse plant, too.

From Captivity by Eyles, M. Leonora