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hothouse plant



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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

Treat yourself like a hothouse plant or you will not soon be rid of your cough.

From Letters of Anton Chekhov by Garnett, Constance

Such a tender, guarded hothouse plant as she is!

From Asbe?n From the Life of a Virtuoso by Schubin, Ossip

He only knew them as “pawn-leaves,” but the botanist at once recognised a rare hothouse plant, belonging to the pepper tribe, Piperacea.

From The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains by Reid, Mayne

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.




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