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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
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He sat down in the ingle nook and held out his hands.
From Jane Oglander by Lowndes, Marie Belloc
To the left are a cheerful glowing fire and ingle.
From Contemporary One-Act Plays by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
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
See the huge logs, the swinging crane, The Old Man's seat by chimney ingle, The pots and kettles, all the train Of brass and pewter, here they mingle.
From Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown With a Chapter on Historic Morristown by Colles, Julia Keese
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
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Oh, Gawd, look at Fintan and his ingles.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
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Everywhere—even in daylight, even on the sunniest of mornings—were dark shadows that hung around the ingles and recesses of the rooms, the deep cupboards, the passages, and silent, winding staircases.
From Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter by O'Donnell, Elliott
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 Sala, George Augustus