inglenook

Historical Examples

• At one side the dark wainscoting yawned to a cavernous fireplace and inglenook with seats in black leather.

  The Valiants of Virginia

  Hallie Erminie Rives

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

  Edmund Dulacs Fairy-Book

  Edmund Dulac

• "Noo," said Mr. Traill, when his overcome little guests were seated at a table in the inglenook.

  Greyfriars Bobby

  Eleanor Atkinson

• An enormous wood fire blazed at one end of the hall, and in the inglenook sat a girl of some twenty summers.

  A Cotswold Village

  J. Arthur Gibbs

• The latter began to move with uncertain steps after Phyllida, who shrank towards the shelter of the inglenook.

  The Passionate Elopement

  Compton Mackenzie