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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

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

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

From A Practical Novelist by Davidson, John

There he sat in the ingle by the chimney corner, like a cat, and grubbed in the ashes and split fir tapers.

From Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales by Asbj?rnsen, P. Chr.