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Paddy says, Fintan, what’s an ingle? and Fintan says it’s just a boy from olden times who sits in a corner, that’s all.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
Then see him at the ingle side, Wi’ bairnies round him laughin’; Was ever dog sae pleased as he, Sae fond o’ fun and daffin?
From Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat by Gordon Stables
Martin stood somewhat shyly near the broad ingle.
From The Revellers by Louis Tracy
Old Mrs. Cregeen sat knitting in an armchair at one side of the ingle.
From She's All the World to Me by Sir Hall Caine
Jacob Whiddon sat in the ingle, with Bertha, his youngest girl, perched on his knee.
From The Golden Galleon BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER GILBERT OGLANDER, AND OF HOW, IN THE YEAR 1591, HE FOUGHT UNDER THE GALLANT SIR by Robert Leighton
Just before the first chorus of Rosalía’s airy new single “LLYLM,” the Spanish phenom sings, “Lo diré en ingles y me entenderás” — I will say it in English and you will understand me.
From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2023
When an Argentine pledges his honor he gives the palabra de ingles, "the word of an Englishman."
From Time Magazine Archive
Oh, Gawd, look at Fintan and his ingles.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
Behind the tap was the Travellers' Room, and what a room it was—with great open fireplaces and spits and bubbling kettles and blackened ingles.
From The Passionate Elopement by Compton MacKenzie
Fezzans ’ll run their heads into his ingles like winkin’.
From Christmas Penny Readings Original Sketches for the Season by George Manville Fenn
