The pursuit of a procession is surely one of the most wearisome

Of all the things that people do by way of pleasure, the pursuit of a procession is surely one of the most wearisome. They generally go a long way to see it; they wait a weary time; it is always late; and when at length it does come, it is over in a few minutes.

A. Edwards, A Thousand Miles Up The Nile (1877), 21