inglenook

Example Sentences

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They're only hiding in the inglenook just beyond the boating lake.

From The Guardian • Jul. 12, 2013

Unlike Lutyens, Mackintosh was not willing to knock up a Tudorbethan inglenook to order.

From The Guardian • Jun. 29, 2013

The inglenook was probably put together from remnants and refimshed.

From Time Magazine Archive

We English people would suffer no loss in kindliness and tolerance were the inglenook restored to our homes.

From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Rhys, Ernest

In the former, between the fireplace and the staircase, and forming a suggestion of an inglenook, Juliet had contrived a high, wide seat, cushioned in dull green, and boasting a number of pretty pillows.

From The Indifference of Juliet by Hutt, Henry