We seem so like the Children of Israel bundled out of a Promised Land, or old Adam and Eve turned out of the Garden with their little CAINS and Abels.
"The Prairie Mother"
Arthur Stringer
The people will find it out, and then they will ask those CAINS at the wheel an account of the innocent blood of Abel, the country's son, the country's cause.
"Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862"
Adam Gurowski
It is one of the first inventions of the cultivator, and not so very far removed from its pierced flint representative occasionally turned up amongst the weapons and tools of primitive man; but when bronze, and later on iron, began to yield to the inventor, and the action of fire was utilised by the Tubal CAINS of their day, the broad-headed hoe began to develop; and we have it spread, in a very similar form to that still used in Egypt, all round the world where men commenced to till the soil.
"The Khedive's Country"
George Manville Fenn