Careful Words

marked (adj.)

Here rests his head upon the lap of earth,

A youth to fortune and to fame unknown:

Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth,

And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.

Thomas Gray (1716-1771): The Epitaph.

  But God, who is able to prevail, wrestled with him; marked him for his own.

Izaak Walton (1593-1683): Life of Donne.