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
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
And Mr. Craig, with the wonderful hothouse plant in his button-hole, was staring at her, she knew.
From Adam Bede by Eliot, George
The wisdom of the Mysteries is like a hothouse plant, which must be cultivated and fostered in seclusion.
From Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity by Collison, Harry
