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

Taking a fairy-tale book from the shelf he went and sat in the inglenook, thus sheltering himself from a further storm of abuse from his stepmother.

From Edmund Dulac's Fairy-Book Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations by Dulac, Edmund

We may begin with our ambition set on museum treasures, but we can come happily down to the friendly fragments that fit our private purses and the wall-space by the inglenook.

From The Tapestry Book by Candee, Helen Churchill Hungerford, Mrs.