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Example sentences for "hothouse"

Lexicographically close words:
hotels; hotep; hotfoot; hotheaded; hotheads; hothouses; hoti; hotly; hotness; hott
  1. Aubrey Beardsley got the cue for his hothouse art from one figure in Botticelli's "Spring," I need not state which figure: a glance at the picture and you behold sulphur fumes about the face of one of the women.

  2. On the journey he had a very good appetite for such refreshment as came in our way (including a basket of choice hothouse peaches), but never thought of paying for anything.

  3. Like plants and flowerets, no denizens of hothouse or simulated tropic clime, but not the less carefully tended from harmful extremes, climatic or social, had the Effingham family grown and flourished.

  4. Well, you can have a winter garden now, without the expense of glass or the trouble of hothouse flues; while you can cheat the season by abstaining from colds, which you could never do in England, you know.

  5. Gray) has nevertheless established itself in the hearts of the people from the Arctic to the Gulf as no sweet-scented, showy, hothouse exotic has ever done.

  6. These hardy species lose their leaves in winter, whereas the hothouse varieties of A.

  7. As in the case of hothouse flowers no fertile seed is set when nets keep away the laurel's benefactors.

  8. Having the gorgeous, exotic air plants of the hothouse in mind, this little tubercled orchis seems a very poor relation indeed.

  9. Is it because my pants fit much too soon, Or that my hand-me-down is out of style, That thou dost turn me under when I spoon, Nor hand me hothouse beauties with a smile?

  10. Accustomed to food fresh from the soil and the farmyard, he sneered at hothouse asparagus, hothouse grapes, and cold-storage quail.

  11. These were very different from the hothouse roses and the flowers of rare beauty which decorated Lord Hawtrey's house.

  12. Her eyes lighted up with pleasure as they fell on the beautiful basket of hothouse roses.

  13. 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.

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

  15. At Newcastle-on-Tyne and some other places various friends came out to meet us, some of whom presented us with most splendid bouquets of hothouse flowers.

  16. After the return of the party from Hamilton Park, we sat down to an elegant lunch, where my eye was attracted more than any thing else, by the splendor of the hothouse flowers which adorned the table.

  17. He is engaged in growing and wholesale shipping of hothouse and garden vegetables.

  18. He has three acres under glass and he is producing high grade vegetables and, in fact, he is known as one of the leading hothouse vegetable growers in the northwest.

  19. Mojonnier, a prominent and representative business man of Walla Walla county, is conducting his interests under the name of the Walla Walla Hothouse Vegetable Company.

  20. He took a walk round and moved some of the expensive hothouse plants.

  21. The untiring hens have made their nests in obscure corners in the hothouse and dream serenely of future posterity, while the one cock scratches for tired worms to provide for their repasts.

  22. This farming of Louis's in the hothouse goes to prove how an unnecessary palm-garden in time of peace can be transformed into a useful kitchen garden in time of war.

  23. Hothouse grapes are not dear at $1 the pound; but we should have had them equally good by waiting two months later, when they would have cost us nothing.

  24. He has not arrived here yet," said an old gray-haired Woman, who was going about and watching the hothouse of Death.

  25. And then they went into the great hothouse of Death, where flowers and trees were growing marvellously intertwined.

  26. I then brought the pupæ into a hothouse in which the temperature fluctuated between 12° and 24° R.

  27. The temperature of the hothouse (12°-24° R.

  28. There rushed through the hothouse a chill of icy coldness, and the blind mother felt that Death had arrived.

  29. Here is a foreign hothouse plant, too tender for the gardens of the North.

  30. If you will weep those eyes away in tears into my waters, then I will take you to the large hothouse where Death dwells and rears flowers and trees, every one of which is a human life.

  31. But with the bare, hard life, and the bare, bleak mountains around, who could find fault with even a hothouse atmosphere, if it can nourish such a flower of Paradise as sacred human love?

  32. These reflections are forced upon me by the sweet child-voices about me, and by the exquisite consideration and tenderness which are the atmosphere (some would call it the hothouse atmosphere) of this house.

  33. This is the season of the pot-herb, the time when the winter-kept vegetables lose their flavour and hothouse products are too dear and too tasteless.

  34. This is the largest hothouse in the Inland Empire and, with one exception, in the entire Northwest.

  35. One of the important features of Walla Walla gardening is the Walla Walla hothouse vegetable enterprise on the river, five miles west of the city, conducted by F.

  36. I have said that the plants in a hothouse fail to communicate a just idea of the vegetation, yet I must recur to it.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hothouse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    conservatory; glasshouse; greenhouse; hotbed; hothouse; nursery; summerhouse