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

I'm only just a hothouse plant, to be kept under glass.

From The Squire's Daughter by Hocking, Silas K(itto)

"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

Catholicism as we know it is Latin Christianity, and even in the Latin countries it is now a hothouse plant, dependent on a special education in Catholic schools and seminaries, with an index librorum prohibitorum.

From Outspoken Essays by Inge, William Ralph

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