The recess with benches in old-fashioned fireplaces, the fire.
“Sit thee by the ingle when
The sear faggot blazes bright.”
Keats: Fancy, stanza 1.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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