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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

Those cozy fire-side diversions which extended alike from the cottage ingle neuk to the manorial hall and the castle court.

From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Curling, Henry

Can I forget my father's hearth— My mother by the ingle spinnin— Their weel-pleased look to see the mirth O' a' their bairnies round them rinnin?

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various

That night Thorkell sat alone at the same ingle, in the same chair, glancing at many parchments, and dropping them one by one into the fire.

From The Deemster by Caine, Hall, Sir

Old Mrs. Cregeen sat knitting in an armchair at one side of the ingle.

From She's All the World to Me by Caine, Hall, Sir