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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

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

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

Here around the ingle bleezing, Wha sae happy and sae free; Tho' the northern wind blaws freezing, Frien'ship warms baith you and me.

From The Golden Link of Friendship by Various

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.