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Example Sentences

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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

There he sat in the ingle by the chimney corner, like a cat, and grubbed in the ashes and split fir tapers.

From Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales by Asbj?rnsen, P. Chr.

Suddenly there were two very startled people in the company around the ingle nook.

From 'As Gold in the Furnace' A College Story by Copus, John E.

Immediately opposite to the dog, on one side of the ingle, sat the woman.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 by Various

The handsome, motherly landlady looked after every guest; and Arnold, the jolliest landlord that ever lived, sat smoking in the ingle, chatting with some traveller, or listening to the yarn of a lake fisherman.

From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 by Various