"Ingle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to our tale.—Ae market night Tam had got planted unco right Fast by an ingle bleezing finely Wi reaming swats that drank divinely; And at his elbow Souter Johnny, His ancient, trusty, drouthy crony; Tam lo'ed him like a very brither— They had been fou ...
— The Golden Censer - The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future • John McGovern
... the squire, arousing from his doze in the "ingle nook." "We had a seven years' struggle of it in the old war, and I fear that there will have to be some blood-letting before these bad humours are cufed. But we'll hope for the best. Come, Katharine, bring us a ...
— Neville Trueman the Pioneer Preacher • William Henry Withrow
... of them hight Adam Bell, The other Clym of the Clough, The third was William of Cloudeslie, An archer good enough. They were outlawed for venison, These three yeomen every one; They swore them brethren upon a day, To Ingle wood ...
— A Bundle of Ballads • Various
... Madison, and Ingle the architect—had evidently dined well, preparing for a musical comedy, and ...
— The Blue Wall - A Story of Strangeness and Struggle • Richard Washburn Child
... Sweep the ingle, froth the beer, Tiptoe on till chanticleer, Loose the laugh, dry the tear,— Crack the drums ...
— In The Yule-Log Glow—Book 3 - Christmas Poems from 'round the World • Various
... there were some days of such intense cold that even our young Crusoes, hardy as they were, preferred the blazing log-fire and warm ingle-nook to the frozen lake and cutting north-west wind which blew the loose snow in blinding drifts over its bleak, unsheltered surface. Clad in the warm tunic and petticoat of Indian blanket, with fur-lined moccasins, Catharine and her Indian friend ...
— Lost in the Backwoods • Catharine Parr Traill
... dick! the string the snick did draw,— And jee! the door gaed to the wa'; An' by my ingle-lowe I saw, Now bliezin' bright, A tight, outlandish Hizzie, braw, ...
— Notes & Queries No. 29, Saturday, May 18, 1850 • Various
... was built up on the hearth of the cosy, untidy room which had been the MacGregors' nursery; and the young folk sat round the 'ingle-neuk' and discussed matters dear to the heart of ...
— The Adventure League • Hilda T. Skae
... wi' serious face, They, round the ingle, form a circle wide; The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha'-Bible, ance his father's pride. His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin and bare; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion ...
— On The Art of Reading • Arthur Quiller-Couch
... the foot-hills which precede the Rocky-Mountain dewlaps of old age. It wouldn't be long, I could see, before I'd have to start watching my diet, and looking for a white hair or two, and probably give up horseback riding. And then settle down into an ingle-nook old dowager with a hassock under my feet and a creak in my knees and a fixed conviction that young folks never acted up in my youth as they act ...
— The Prairie Child • Arthur Stringer
... picture of the fireside that would always seem empty. I felt the tears in my eyes, and, wondering at myself, I cast a stealthy glance at the men about me; and I saw that they, too, were looking through their hearts' windows upon firesides and ingle-neuks ...
— Black Rock • Ralph Connor
... of December there were some days of such intense cold, that even our young Crusoes, hardy as they were, preferred the blazing log-fire and warm ingle nook, to the frozen lake and cutting north-west wind which blew the loose snow in blinding drifts over its bleak, unsheltered surface. Clad in the warm tunic and petticoat of Indian blanket with fur-lined mocassins, Catharine and her Indian friend felt little cold excepting to ...
— Canadian Crusoes - A Tale of The Rice Lake Plains • Catharine Parr Traill
... the canty hole, A bield for mony a caldrife soul, What snugly at thine ingle loll, Baith warm and couth, While round they gar the bicker roll To weet ...
— English Poets of the Eighteenth Century • Selected and Edited with an Introduction by Ernest Bernbaum
... the cricket chirrin', Hear auld Bawthrens by the ingle purrin',— Christ us keep while daddie's gone a-huntin'! ...
— Masters of the Guild • L. Lamprey
... gentleman critick in pedigrees. Of all things he endures not to be mistaken for a scholar, and hates a black suit though it be made of sattin. His companion is ordinarily some stale fellow, that has been notorious for an ingle to gold hatbands,[45] whom he admires at first, afterward scorns. If he have spirit or wit he may light of better company, and may learn some flashes of wit, which may do him knight's service in the country hereafter. ...
— Microcosmography - or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters • John Earle
... billie," quo' a' the three, "The day is com'd thou was to die; But thou's as weil at thy ain ingle side, Now sitting, I think, 'twixt ...
— Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3) • Walter Scott
... rose-covered porch into a wide square room, with raftered ceiling and deep carved oak ingle nook,—and here at the table, with a quarto volume opened out before her, sat Gloria, resting her head on one fair hand, her rich hair falling about her in loose shining tresses, and her whole attitude ...
— Temporal Power • Marie Corelli |
