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 Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
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 Dulcken, H. W. (Henry William)
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
Mrs Wititterly is of a very excitable nature; very delicate, very fragile; a hothouse plant, an exotic.'
From Nicholas Nickleby by Dickens, Charles
