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
Catholicism as we know it is Latin Christianity, and even in the Latin countries it is now a hothouse plant, dependent on a special education in Catholic schools and seminaries, with an index librorum prohibitorum.
From Outspoken Essays by Inge, William Ralph
Such a tender, guarded hothouse plant as she is!
From Asbe?n From the Life of a Virtuoso by Schubin, Ossip
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)
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)
