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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

There he sat in the ingle by the chimney corner, like a cat, and grubbed in the ashes and split fir tapers.

From Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales by Asbj?rnsen, P. Chr.

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 Stables, Gordon

He sat down in the ingle nook and held out his hands.

From Jane Oglander by Lowndes, Marie Belloc

Lettie picked up a book that lay in the ingle seat, and went to the window.

From The White Peacock by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)