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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.

You should see him set a sneer or ingle, he’d captivate any mortial thing.

From Christmas Penny Readings Original Sketches for the Season by Fenn, George Manville

Another recalled the fact that on Good Friday morning Kisseck struck the griddle that hung in the ingle and tumbled it into the fire.

From She's All the World to Me by Caine, Hall, Sir

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