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

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)

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)

Andy wilted at the end of his long speech like a hothouse plant in the frost.

From The Secret of the Storm Country by Hitchcock, Lucius W.