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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 Caine, Hall, Sir

The bull-dog, which had been asleep in one of the warm corners of the ingle, crept out yawning and wagging his stump of a tail by way of greeting.

From The Golden Galleon BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER GILBERT OGLANDER, AND OF HOW, IN THE YEAR 1591, HE FOUGHT UNDER THE GALLANT SIR by Leighton, Robert

A pair of bellows lay on an antique chest in the ingle.

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

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