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
He imagines himself to be in love with the pastor's daughter in the village, who has been brought up like a hothouse plant.
From Essays on Modern Novelists by Phelps, William Lyon
Here is a foreign hothouse plant, too tender for the gardens of the North.
From Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)
Treat yourself like a hothouse plant or you will not soon be rid of your cough.
From Letters of Anton Chekhov by Garnett, Constance
"Do not make him think I am an invalid, or he will make a complete hothouse plant of me."
From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Hentz, Caroline Lee
