Sentence Compsosing Expert Sentences #051 - 055

#051
I gave her happy memories: a ride on a merry-go-round, a kitten to play with, a special toy.
          - Lois Lowry, The Giver


#052
In Maycomb, grown men stood outside in the front yard for only two reasons: death and politics.
          - Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird


#053
By the dawn, the house smelled of Sunday: chicken frying, bacon sizzling, and smoke sausages baking.
          - Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry


#054
Animals took shape: yellow giraffes, blue lions, pink antelopes, lilac panthers cavorting in crystal substance.
          - Ray Bradbury, “There Will Come Soft Rains”


#055
Then the sounds of the forest returned: the first tentative croak of a tree frog, the buzz of one cicada, and then the full chorus.
          - Michael Crichton,  Jurassic Park