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
I wear through black and endless years Upon my brow the mark of Cain.
From Trees and Other Poems by Kilmer, Joyce
