When all was arranged it looked a charming little abode, and thoroughly in harmony, from the black beams of its ingle nook to the carved settle and gate-legged oak table, or the framed samplers on its walls.
The entertainment, during the long nights of winter, when the natives gather round the ingle and someone reads aloud, is a very palpable addition to the joys of life.
Ingle and Miss Meeke were married on the twentieth of January.
Ingle met him, in traveling dress, at the railway station, when he took a through ticket to Washington, and said that he was en route for New York, and meant to sail on the Scotia for Liverpool next Saturday.
Ingle loves you and wins your love, and offers you marriage, you should marry.
Ingle came, and we all went down into the drawing room to see him," replied Elva.
What did Ingle talk about, or find to talk about, while you two were hanging around him like a wet blanket?
Ingle called to keep an appointment with Miss Meeke.
A happy circle was that which gathered round Davie's ingle that night, the ingle from which the ale-house never again had power to allure him.
The Ingle Side, a little song of sixteen lines, is Ainslie's masterpiece; but it was as a poet of the sea that he won his great reputation.
So at last she sat down quietly beside him, and fell to speaking to him, as a tale is told in the ingle nook on an even of Yule-tide.
Champions shouted gladly withal, and great joy there was in that ingleof the ancient work.
There were willows about the banks of the river, and in an ingle of it stood a grange or homestead, with many roofs half hidden by clumps of tall old elm trees.
I then bade the woman sit down by the ingle cheek, and our wife to give her a piece of cold beef, and a shave of bread, besides twopence out of my own pocket.
The charges were dismissed by the grand jury as unfounded, but Brent treated Ingle harshly, and fined and exiled Thomas Cornwallis for assisting the captain in escaping.
A few months more, and I should have made a very big thing if the Boers hadn't upset it all and Master Ingle hadn't been so precious clever!
I'm all right, and I wonder how West and Ingle have got on.
Just then I thought of the check for one dollar that Mr. Ingle had given me, and so I said, "I have a check for one dollar, if that will go.
The next day, August thirteenth, was fine and clear, and we decided not to start on until the roads had dried up some, and so visited with Mr. Ingle for a few hours.
The young people, with Mrs. Charles, had risen from the table and had gathered on the pile of skins and cushions in one of the ingle nooks.
Big log fires danced and glowed from the deep ingle nooks; from outside came the sense of the silence.
They clung round the ingle nook till the last moment; they parted with a sigh and a shudder, knowing that the morrow might find one face missing, one voice silenced for ever.
Ralph Ravenspur still sat in the ingle with his face bent upon the glowing logs as if he could see, and as if he was seeking for some inspiration in the sparkling crocus flame.
Calvert was granted by the King letters of marque for privateering purposes, and he took good care to prey upon his enemy, Clayborne, whose friend Ingle had been furnished with similar letters from Parliament.
Grate there was none, and the fire must burn on the hearth-stone, but a good stack of dry peat and heather stood in the ingle nook, evidently left ready for use.
Near the ingle sat a younger, matronly woman, hushing an infant to rest.
Only in old prints may we find some pleasing recollection of red-tiled or thatched houses with half timber and half plaster walls, their ingle nooks, dormer windows, or many gables.
Now, forgive me, and, in memory of all that has been between us, let me creep to my place in the ingleand still watch and serve thee and thine till my service is outworn.
With my own blood I will wash away the blood of Atli, and then I seek another place, leaving nothing but a tale to be told in the ingle when fall the winter snows.
In the high deal ingle sat three young men smoking long clay pipes; and by the window facing the river Maurice stood breathing upon the glass in order to record his love's name in evanescent charactery upon the misted surface.
The three young men in the ingle rose and, knocking out their pipes, stood with their backs to the fire in an attitude of easy expectation.
It was ever so; and to-day the lessened necessity for crowding round the fire and sitting in the ingle nook, owing to modern methods of distributing the heat, in no way lessens the attraction which draws an Englishman to the fire.
In winter the ingle side, or its equivalent in a modern house, appears to be the chief centre of attraction.
The evolution of the fender forms a pleasing story in connection with the ingle side.
In the homestead of the Ritsons the wide old ingle was aglow with a cheerful fire, and Mrs. Ritson stood before it baking oaten cake on a "griddle.
On the wooden mantel-shelf above the wideingle a large book stood open, and the leaves fluttered with the wind that came through the door.
There followed an actual insurrection, the Marylanders joining with Ingle and much aided by Claiborne, who now retook Kent Island.
Ingle and his men landed and quickly found out the Protestant moiety of the colonists.
For two yearsIngle ruled and plundered, sequestrating goods of the Proprietary's adherents, and deporting in irons Jesuit priests.
Calvert was not long at St. Mary's ere Ingle sailed in again with letters-of-marque from the Long Parliament.
