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

The wisdom of the Mysteries is a hothouse plant, which is revealed to a few individuals ripe for it.

From Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity by Collison, Harry

"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

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

And Mr. Craig, with the wonderful hothouse plant in his button-hole, was staring at her, she knew.

From Adam Bede by Eliot, George