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
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
Here is a foreign hothouse plant, too tender for the gardens of the North.
From Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)
"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
