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
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 H. W. (Henry William) Dulcken
"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 Caroline Lee Hentz
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
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 John Price-Brown
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