“It also helped that he knew this route and its every topographical feature, perhaps well enough to not need a clicker, to amble along deafly.”
“As I kept deafly and pusillanimously to my room, I am far from sure what happened during the remainder of the night.”
“So while I'm at the stage of a new writing project where I am vaguely hearing, rather deafly, the demands of a new train of thought, the drawing goes on every day.”