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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

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)

Old Mrs. Cregeen sat knitting in an armchair at one side of the ingle.

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

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

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.