Is it that it seems a strange and hideous dream, from which we will awake and rub our eyes?

It is, indeed, difficult to imagine what hideous beings these three sisters were.

Alberich was the most hideous of all the black, ugly little Nibelungs.

There was a hideous fascination in this spectacle stretched before us.

The thing thrust so unexpectedly before her eyes was hideous in the extreme.

The baby made a grimace at him which was hideous but lovely.

Looking around he saw the hideous face of Number Ten snarling into his.

A moment later she caught sight of Number Twelve's hideous face.

My father did them a hideous wrong, but it was an unintentional wrong.

Is it because they are hideous, or because they are soulless?