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Example Sentences

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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

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

From A Practical Novelist by Davidson, John

A pair of bellows lay on an antique chest in the ingle.

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

But the blazing peat— "The bleezing ingle, and the clean hearth-stane"— is the very soul of cheerfulness and comfort.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 by Various

Those cozy fire-side diversions which extended alike from the cottage ingle neuk to the manorial hall and the castle court.

From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Curling, Henry