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
And she became very frightened that, some day, she might make Andrew a hothouse plant, too.
From Captivity by Eyles, M. Leonora
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)
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
She looked for all the world like a hothouse plant.
From Three Years in Europe Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met by Brown, William Wells
