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

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

Now the Aster is not naturally a hothouse plant.

From The Mayflower, January, 1905 by Various

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

From Adam Bede by Eliot, George

I'm quite as eager as you to discover how the transplanting of the hothouse plant into the hardy outdoor soil of the country has worked out.

From Under the Country Sky by Rogers, Frances