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Desert Gold

Chapter XIX · Chapter 19

Chapter 19 of Desert Gold is here in full — 226 sentences across 46 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

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In the swift search that ensued Gale did not have anything to say; but his mind was forming a conclusion.
When he found his old saddle and bridle missing from the peg in the barn his conclusion became a positive conviction, and it made him, for the moment, cold and sick and speechless.
"Hey, Dick, don't take it so much to heart," said Belding.
"We'll likely find Sol, and if we don't, there's other good horses."
"I'm not thinking of Sol," replied Gale.
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Desert Gold

Chapter XIX · Chapter 19

Chapter 19 of Desert Gold is here in full — 226 sentences across 46 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/45 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1
In the swift search that ensued Gale did not have anything to say; but his mind was forming a conclusion.
Line 2
When he found his old saddle and bridle missing from the peg in the barn his conclusion became a positive conviction, and it made him, for the moment, cold and sick and speechless.
Line 3
"Hey, Dick, don't take it so much to heart," said Belding.
Line 4
"We'll likely find Sol, and if we don't, there's other good horses."
Line 5
"I'm not thinking of Sol," replied Gale.

Learner Dictionary

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Mind noun US /maɪnd/

The element of a person that enables awareness and thought.

From this reading “In the swift search that ensued Gale did not have anything to say; but his mind was forming a conclusion.”

All words in this reading · 65

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a

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From this reading In the swift search that ensued Gale did not have anything to say; but his mind was forming a conclusion.

and

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From this reading When he found his old saddle and bridle missing from the peg in the barn his conclusion became a positive conviction, and it made him, for the moment, cold and sick and speechless.

anything

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From this reading In the swift search that ensued Gale did not have anything to say; but his mind was forming a conclusion.

barn

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From this reading When he found his old saddle and bridle missing from the peg in the barn his conclusion became a positive conviction, and it made him, for the moment, cold and sick and speechless.

became

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From this reading When he found his old saddle and bridle missing from the peg in the barn his conclusion became a positive conviction, and it made him, for the moment, cold and sick and speechless.

Belding

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From this reading "Hey, Dick, don't take it so much to heart," said Belding.

bridle

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From this reading When he found his old saddle and bridle missing from the peg in the barn his conclusion became a positive conviction, and it made him, for the moment, cold and sick and speechless.

but

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From this reading In the swift search that ensued Gale did not have anything to say; but his mind was forming a conclusion.

cold

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From this reading When he found his old saddle and bridle missing from the peg in the barn his conclusion became a positive conviction, and it made him, for the moment, cold and sick and speechless.

conclusion

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From this reading In the swift search that ensued Gale did not have anything to say; but his mind was forming a conclusion.

conviction

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From this reading When he found his old saddle and bridle missing from the peg in the barn his conclusion became a positive conviction, and it made him, for the moment, cold and sick and speechless.

Dick

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From this reading "Hey, Dick, don't take it so much to heart," said Belding.

did

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From this reading In the swift search that ensued Gale did not have anything to say; but his mind was forming a conclusion.

don't

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From this reading "Hey, Dick, don't take it so much to heart," said Belding.

ensued

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From this reading In the swift search that ensued Gale did not have anything to say; but his mind was forming a conclusion.

find

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From this reading "We'll likely find Sol, and if we don't, there's other good horses."

for

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From this reading When he found his old saddle and bridle missing from the peg in the barn his conclusion became a positive conviction, and it made him, for the moment, cold and sick and speechless.

forming

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From this reading In the swift search that ensued Gale did not have anything to say; but his mind was forming a conclusion.

found

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From this reading When he found his old saddle and bridle missing from the peg in the barn his conclusion became a positive conviction, and it made him, for the moment, cold and sick and speechless.

from

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From this reading When he found his old saddle and bridle missing from the peg in the barn his conclusion became a positive conviction, and it made him, for the moment, cold and sick and speechless.

Gale

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From this reading In the swift search that ensued Gale did not have anything to say; but his mind was forming a conclusion.

good

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From this reading "We'll likely find Sol, and if we don't, there's other good horses."

have

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From this reading In the swift search that ensued Gale did not have anything to say; but his mind was forming a conclusion.

he

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From this reading When he found his old saddle and bridle missing from the peg in the barn his conclusion became a positive conviction, and it made him, for the moment, cold and sick and speechless.

heart

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From this reading "Hey, Dick, don't take it so much to heart," said Belding.

Hey

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From this reading "Hey, Dick, don't take it so much to heart," said Belding.

him

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From this reading When he found his old saddle and bridle missing from the peg in the barn his conclusion became a positive conviction, and it made him, for the moment, cold and sick and speechless.

his

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From this reading In the swift search that ensued Gale did not have anything to say; but his mind was forming a conclusion.

horses

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From this reading "We'll likely find Sol, and if we don't, there's other good horses."

I'm

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From this reading "I'm not thinking of Sol," replied Gale.

if

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From this reading "We'll likely find Sol, and if we don't, there's other good horses."

In

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From this reading In the swift search that ensued Gale did not have anything to say; but his mind was forming a conclusion.

it

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From this reading When he found his old saddle and bridle missing from the peg in the barn his conclusion became a positive conviction, and it made him, for the moment, cold and sick and speechless.

likely

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From this reading "We'll likely find Sol, and if we don't, there's other good horses."

made

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From this reading When he found his old saddle and bridle missing from the peg in the barn his conclusion became a positive conviction, and it made him, for the moment, cold and sick and speechless.

mindnounUS /maɪnd/

The element of a person that enables awareness and thought.

From this reading In the swift search that ensued Gale did not have anything to say; but his mind was forming a conclusion.

missing

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From this reading When he found his old saddle and bridle missing from the peg in the barn his conclusion became a positive conviction, and it made him, for the moment, cold and sick and speechless.

moment

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From this reading When he found his old saddle and bridle missing from the peg in the barn his conclusion became a positive conviction, and it made him, for the moment, cold and sick and speechless.

much

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From this reading "Hey, Dick, don't take it so much to heart," said Belding.

not

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From this reading In the swift search that ensued Gale did not have anything to say; but his mind was forming a conclusion.

of

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From this reading "I'm not thinking of Sol," replied Gale.

old

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From this reading When he found his old saddle and bridle missing from the peg in the barn his conclusion became a positive conviction, and it made him, for the moment, cold and sick and speechless.

other

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From this reading "We'll likely find Sol, and if we don't, there's other good horses."

peg

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From this reading When he found his old saddle and bridle missing from the peg in the barn his conclusion became a positive conviction, and it made him, for the moment, cold and sick and speechless.

positive

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From this reading When he found his old saddle and bridle missing from the peg in the barn his conclusion became a positive conviction, and it made him, for the moment, cold and sick and speechless.

replied

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From this reading "I'm not thinking of Sol," replied Gale.

saddle

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From this reading When he found his old saddle and bridle missing from the peg in the barn his conclusion became a positive conviction, and it made him, for the moment, cold and sick and speechless.

said

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From this reading "Hey, Dick, don't take it so much to heart," said Belding.

say

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From this reading In the swift search that ensued Gale did not have anything to say; but his mind was forming a conclusion.

search

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From this reading In the swift search that ensued Gale did not have anything to say; but his mind was forming a conclusion.

sick

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From this reading When he found his old saddle and bridle missing from the peg in the barn his conclusion became a positive conviction, and it made him, for the moment, cold and sick and speechless.

so

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From this reading "Hey, Dick, don't take it so much to heart," said Belding.

Sol

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From this reading "We'll likely find Sol, and if we don't, there's other good horses."

speechless

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From this reading When he found his old saddle and bridle missing from the peg in the barn his conclusion became a positive conviction, and it made him, for the moment, cold and sick and speechless.

swift

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From this reading In the swift search that ensued Gale did not have anything to say; but his mind was forming a conclusion.

take

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From this reading "Hey, Dick, don't take it so much to heart," said Belding.

that

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From this reading In the swift search that ensued Gale did not have anything to say; but his mind was forming a conclusion.

the

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From this reading In the swift search that ensued Gale did not have anything to say; but his mind was forming a conclusion.

there's

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From this reading "We'll likely find Sol, and if we don't, there's other good horses."

thinking

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From this reading "I'm not thinking of Sol," replied Gale.

to

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From this reading In the swift search that ensued Gale did not have anything to say; but his mind was forming a conclusion.

was

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From this reading In the swift search that ensued Gale did not have anything to say; but his mind was forming a conclusion.

we

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From this reading "We'll likely find Sol, and if we don't, there's other good horses."

We'll

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From this reading "We'll likely find Sol, and if we don't, there's other good horses."

When

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From this reading When he found his old saddle and bridle missing from the peg in the barn his conclusion became a positive conviction, and it made him, for the moment, cold and sick and speechless.

Chapter 19 of Desert Gold by Zane Grey holds 226 sentences, grouped into 46 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.

What does chapter 19 of Desert Gold contain?

Chapter 19 holds 226 sentences of Desert Gold, unabridged, divided into 46 reading sections.

This page carries chapter 19 of Desert Gold by Zane Grey exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 226 sentences, grouped into 46 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.

How do I study chapter 19 of Desert Gold?

Work through the 46 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.

Each of the 46 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.

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Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 19 can be played aloud in United States English.

Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.

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Yes. All 8473 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #502 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.

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How long does Desert Gold take to read?

About 600 minutes of reading across 1695 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Vocabulary met early in Desert Gold

Words and structures a reader meets early in Desert Gold, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.

Friends
A word that appears in the opening chapter of Desert Gold; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Mercedes
A word that appears in the opening chapter of Desert Gold; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Castaneda
A word that appears in the opening chapter of Desert Gold; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
Flight
A word that appears in the opening chapter of Desert Gold; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.