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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
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.
Then see him at the ingle side, Wi’ bairnies round him laughin’; Was ever dog sae pleased as he, Sae fond o’ fun and daffin?
From Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat by Stables, Gordon
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 Brazil, Angela
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
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
Behind the tap was the Travellers' Room, and what a room it was—with great open fireplaces and spits and bubbling kettles and blackened ingles.
From The Passionate Elopement by MacKenzie, Compton
Fezzans ’ll run their heads into his ingles like winkin’.
From Christmas Penny Readings Original Sketches for the Season by Fenn, George Manville
