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
The world may pity, may pardon, but never more respect; and, oh, how dreadful to mingle with the pure, and feel the mark of Cain upon your brow!...
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 by
