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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

And when she had done that she hung over the fire a pot of brose, and when it was cooked she made Matt sit down in the ingle and split matches.

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

To the left are a cheerful glowing fire and ingle.

From Contemporary One-Act Plays by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)

The "Spirit of the Age" has exorcised the spirits of the ingle and the forest.

From John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings by Kennedy, W. Sloane

Claes, Soetkin, and Nele were gossiping together about the ingle, and talked of the pilgrim on his pilgrimage.

From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Coster, Charles Th?odore Henri de