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

"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

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

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

Second, she was a hothouse plant, and would have been out of place in a garrison settlement.

From In the Van; or, The Builders by Price-Brown, John