Snowiest location ranked by highest average annual snowfall: Thompson Pass, southeastern Alaska, 551.5. State precipitation record for 24 hours - Angoon, southeastern Alaska, 10/12/1982, 15.20. State precipitation record for 1 year - MacLeod Harbor, southern Alaska, 1976, 332.29.
Origin. 'The apple of my eye' is exceedingly old and first appears in Old English in a work attributed to King Aelfred (the Great) of Wessex, AD 885, titled Gregory's Pastoral Care.he phrase was known from those early sources but became more widely used in the general population when Sir Walter Scott included it in the popular novel Old Mortality, 1816: Poor Richard was to me as an eldest son, the apple of my eye.. See also-phrases coined by Sir Walter Scott.
Meaning Originally meaning the central aperture of the eye. Figuratively it is something, or more usually someone, cherished above others. Origin The phrase is exceedingly old and first appears in Old English in a work attributed to King Aelfred (the Great) of Wessex, AD 885, entitled Gregory's Pastoral Care.he key to the whole is the use of the expression in early BIBLE translations, as I'll explain below. _______________ The basic Modern English usage of the expression (e.g., you are the apple of my eye) refers to someone who is very precious to you.