Sentence:  The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing <WSD>thick</WSD> and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […]. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.