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
Despite her town breeding, this was no hothouse plant, this daughter of a horse-racing, whisky-drinking, card-playing gentry.
From Kildares of Storm by Kelly, Eleanor Mercein
She looked for all the world like a hothouse plant.
From Three Years in Europe Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met by Brown, William Wells
And here is a foreign hothouse plant, too delicate for the gardens of the North; the leaves almost seem to keep their fragrance still.
From What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales by Dulcken, H. W. (Henry William)
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
