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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

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

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

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

That night Thorkell sat alone at the same ingle, in the same chair, glancing at many parchments, and dropping them one by one into the fire.

From The Deemster by Caine, Hall, Sir

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