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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 floor was paved with large stones, while an ingle nook and settle imparted a cheerful aspect to the apartment.

From A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)

Lettie picked up a book that lay in the ingle seat, and went to the window.

From The White Peacock by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

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

Claes, Soetkin, and Nele were gossiping together about the ingle, and talked of the pilgrim on his pilgrimage.

From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Coster, Charles Th?odore Henri de