hothouse plant

You'll learn how to be women instead of hothouse plants."

Was he some hothouse plant grown to prodigious proportions in the company of elderly people, never having seen a person his own age?

She took the book with her, thinking that it might be pleasant to spend some time reading in the conservatory, among the exotic hothouse plants.

In the humid Philadelphia summers he is like a hothouse plant, in his element.

Popular as a hothouse plant by the 1700s, it was one of the earliest bamboo species introduced into Europe.

Nor did she want him to grow up as she had grown up: a hothouse plant protected from everything real in life.

A kind of hothouse plant.

Don't stand there like hothouse plants!

Elspeth had come late to magic and thus undergone a forced-growth process like a hothouse plant.

Orchids hung down from the trees in profusion, hothouse plants blooming wild: purple, white, pink.

Conservatories were attached to living rooms so that guests could easily enjoy hothouse plants like orchids and cactuses.

And Mr. Craig, with the wonderful hothouse plant in his button-hole, was staring at her, she knew.

Her daddy was a nurseryman and grew tomatoes and grapes and hothouse plants and flowers in his glasshouses.

If he went to be the head gardener of another greenhouse and did another ten years teaching among the geraniums, what species of hothouse plant might result?

But we should have figured that Idra knows what she's doing; neither of us are hothouse plants or we wouldn't be Hawks."

The snowy handkerchief in his breast pocket was scented with some heavy cologne like those hothouse plants so rich you can smell the decay at their roots.

F.D.R. struck Jackson as "all amateur . . . a hothouse plant just set out among weathered and hardy rivals."

American starters are, by and large, treated like hothouse plants, whereas Japanese starters are expected to be old-fashioned warriors, on call day or night, inning after inning.

Thank God I wasn't treated like a hothouse plant, because if I was, I would have failed miserably as a postdoc."'

The image passed from a carefully tended hothouse plant to a weed, burgeoning on every corner of every street and in every corner of every room.

As Mr. Berendt notes in his book, Savannah allows eccentrics to flourish "like hothouse plants tended by an indulgent gardener."

Just the sort of place to be ornamented well with green boughs, and Mr. Craig had been proud to show his taste and his hothouse plants on the occasion.

The latter is filled with hothouse plants, imparting an earthy, jungle-like quality to the atmosphere, as though Bissett Grange were peopled with jaguars and anacondas.

No race of hothouse plants could ever have produced and compelled the recognition of such a stalwart set of basic principles, and no such race can preserve them.

All right, said Wexford i for hothouse plants or tropical fish, but a mixed blessing for ai J elderly Anglo-Saxon policeman with high blood pressure and .