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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
Twenty times she glanced at the little clock with the lion face and the pendulum like a dog's head that swung above the ingle.
From The Deemster by Sir Hall Caine
And Billy-the-Gawk, who sat at the opposite side of the ingle, being kin to Jabez's sick wife, said, "Ay, and quiet like, and solemn extraordinary."
From The Deemster by Sir Hall Caine
At back, in center, a deep ingle, with two hobs and fire bars fixed between, on either side settles.
From One-Act Plays By Modern Authors by Various
Grate there was none, and the fire must burn on the hearth-stone, but a good stack of dry peat and heather stood in the ingle nook, evidently left ready for use.
From A Terrible Tomboy by Angela Brazil
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
Fezzans ’ll run their heads into his ingles like winkin’.
From Christmas Penny Readings Original Sketches for the Season by George Manville Fenn
They picked up their sorry crust by burning of charcoal, and carting of dead wood to farmers for to consume in their ingles.
From The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by George Augustus Sala
