Which sentence from the text MOST strongly supports the idea that the author portrays the
machine as a human being?

A. But instead of a milking stool imagine it a great body of machinery on a tripod
stand.

B. Machine it was, with a ringing metallic pace, and long, flexible, glittering. tentacles (one of which gripped a young pine tree) swinging and rattling about
its strange body.

C. It picked its road as it went striding along, and the brazen hood that surmounted
it moved to and fro with the inevitable suggestion of a head looking about.

D. Behind the main body was a huge mass of white metal like a gigantic
fisherman's basket, and puffs of green smoke squirted out from the joints of the
limbs as the monster swept by me.