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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

He sat down in the ingle nook and held out his hands.

From Jane Oglander by Lowndes, Marie Belloc

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

I mind fine sitting at oor ingle ae Januwar nicht wi' Maister Shaw.

From A Practical Novelist by Davidson, John

Can I forget my father's hearth— My mother by the ingle spinnin— Their weel-pleased look to see the mirth O' a' their bairnies round them rinnin?

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various