inglenook
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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
They were the only warm corners, but Gilbert did not feel the cold and certainly could not have fitted into the inglenook.
From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Maisie Ward
We English people would suffer no loss in kindliness and tolerance were the inglenook restored to our homes.
From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Ernest Rhys
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