inglenook

Example Sentences

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They're only hiding in the inglenook just beyond the boating lake.

From The Guardian • Jul. 12, 2013

Unlike Lutyens, Mackintosh was not willing to knock up a Tudorbethan inglenook to order.

From The Guardian • Jun. 29, 2013

The inglenook was probably put together from remnants and refimshed.

From Time Magazine Archive

The old wife sang merrily as she sat in the inglenook stirring the soup, for she had never felt so sad.

From Edmund Dulac's Fairy-Book Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations by Dulac, Edmund

Priscilla, who would have had to cross the room to reach the kitchen door, lost her head, wildly plunged the chocolate cake under a cushion on the inglenook sofa, and dashed upstairs.

From Anne of the Island by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)