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

Sitting in the inglenook by the fireplace, Professor Green said to Molly: “I have been waiting to say something to you, Miss Brown, and I will ask you to regard it as confidential.”

From Molly Brown's Freshman Days by Speed, Nell

To sit in the inglenook and knit, with no human companionship but sick kittens, with dull monotony broken only by visits from dutiful clergymen in pursuit of alms for foreign missions, was not for me.

From The Siege of the Seven Suitors by Nicholson, Meredith