mark with a white stone
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]mark with a white stone (third-person singular simple present marks with a white stone, present participle marking with a white stone, simple past and past participle marked with a white stone)
- (transitive) To mark as particularly fortunate.
- 1885, Annie Brassey, In the Trades, the Tropics, and the Roaring Forties:
- If we ever do reap any harvest from our little experiment, it will be a day to be marked with a white stone.
- 1851, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857), Chapter 25, quoting a letter written by Charlotte Bronte dated June 2, 1851
- Sunday — yesterday — was a day to be marked with a white stone […]