More opening lines for steampunk writers:
1. She fell in love with him on a rainy day; he had offered to share his pneumatic umbrella.
2. As Miss Falconer hurried down the spiral staircase, she fumbled with the latch on her ghost-hunting kit.
3. Pip spotted his mark: a well-dressed man craning his neck to watch the inaugural flight of the wheel-less carriage.
4. It took three whacks of the executioner's blade before the automaton's head rolled off the stage. Oil from its neck sprayed onto the faces of the cheering onlookers in the front row.
5. "There's a man at the door claiming to be a time-traveler, milady."
Lady Winchester sighed as she set down her paintbrush. "That's the third time this week. And how old does he look this time?"
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