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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
Jacob Whiddon sat in the ingle, with Bertha, his youngest girl, perched on his knee.
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 Robert Leighton
But the blazing peat— "The bleezing ingle, and the clean hearth-stane"— is the very soul of cheerfulness and comfort.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 by Various
Those cozy fire-side diversions which extended alike from the cottage ingle neuk to the manorial hall and the castle court.
From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Henry Curling
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
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
