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

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

Mrs Wititterly is of a very excitable nature; very delicate, very fragile; a hothouse plant, an exotic.'

From Nicholas Nickleby by Dickens, Charles

Now the Aster is not naturally a hothouse plant.

From The Mayflower, January, 1905 by Various

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