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

"Bergen-Belsen, a place in the center of Germany," he said, "remains the mark of Cain burned into the memory of our people . . . the site of a deluded will to destruction."

From Time Magazine Archive

But the blood was on him still, and, under the locks that clustered darkly over his forehead, the ineffaceable mark of Cain.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 by Various