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
But industry is not of the nature of a hothouse plant, to be forced by artificial means; and these grants of funds have but created monopolies, and consequently added to the general poverty.
From Life in Mexico by Calderón de la Barca, Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis)
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 Rogers, Frances
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 Reid, Mayne
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
