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
It was not, like their tragedy, their comedy, their epic and lyric poetry, a hothouse plant which, in return for assiduous and skilful culture, gave only scanty and sickly fruits.
From Lays of Ancient Rome by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
The wisdom of the Mysteries is like a hothouse plant, which must be cultivated and fostered in seclusion.
From Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity by Harry Collison
"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
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 Frances Rogers
