mark of Cain

Example Sentences

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Werksman called the jail clothes a "mark of Cain" that branded his client a criminal in photos and video from the courtroom.

From Fox News • Jul. 29, 2021

In others, they are instruments of divine comeuppance, like the boulder of Sisyphus or the mark of Cain.

From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2019

If only the shattered people carried a sign, a small mark of Cain so that we could be gentler with them, maybe smile at them a bit more—not to pity them but to console.

From Slate • Oct. 6, 2016

Thus Mr. Cain has it both-ways: his boy can be a college-educated, clean-cut young American and at the same time do the tough things in the tough situations that are the mark of Cain.

From Time Magazine Archive

At least so I thought as I fled away, the mark of Cain upon my brow; the horror was so strong upon me that I could not kill myself, I feared to join the dead.

From Castle Nowhere by Woolson, Constance Fenimore