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
A change had come—the change of the hothouse plant set out to the bufferings of the four winds of heaven to perish from weakness or gather strength from hardship.
From Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
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 Harry Collison
He only knew them as “pawn-leaves,” but the botanist at once recognised a rare hothouse plant, belonging to the pepper tribe, Piperacea.
From The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains by Mayne Reid
I'm only just a hothouse plant, to be kept under glass.
From The Squire's Daughter by Silas K(itto) Hocking
