Because the men that do are usually such anaemic, dolly things, such shaved poodles with their Sunday bows on.
"The Woman With The Fan"
Robert Hichens
And the Mavering papers are very pretty, and you can live with them without becoming anaemic, or having your face twitch.
"April Hopes"
William Dean Howells Last Updated: February 27, 2009
The mingling of external races in the army and in trade, the interference of a Northern soldiery in the affairs of the throne, the more peaceful but more intimate shuffling of the population through the social and economic emergence of the one-time nameless and poor, whether of native origin or foreign, may have contributed fresh blood to an anaemic society, but the result most apparent to the eye and most disturbing to the soul was the debasement of standards and the fears that naturally come with violent, sudden, or merely unfamiliar change.
"Horace and His Influence"
Grant Showerman