Which preposition to use with lobby

of Occurrences 34%

If you are JOHN SMITH and own a coal mine or an iron mill, you go to Washington, see your Congressman, (by see I mean look at him, of course,) donate large sums of money to certain poor, but honest men, who adorn the lobby of the House, while they are waiting for generous patrons like unto you, then go home and calmly await the result.

in Occurrences 6%

In crossing the lobby in the hotel at Savannah, Georgia, Lulu's most pressing problem had been to know where to look.

with Occurrences 4%

I saw her flying down the lobby with the net over her head, looking like an oriental bride; I heard the street door bang, and I found the butter-fly net on the doormat.

to Occurrences 3%

Then she took his hand and marched him across the lobby to the dining room.

at Occurrences 3%

He was conscious that she passed through the restaurant towards the lobby at no great distance from himself.

after Occurrences 2%

It was on the following afternoon, as they all met in the hotel lobby after lunch, that a messenger handed young Jones a neat parcel, for which a receipt was demanded.

from Occurrences 2%

She had come into the chocolate-colored lobby from one of her rides with Jim Greely.

against Occurrences 2%

Eighty Protectionists followed Lord George Bentinck into the lobby against the bill, in combination with the Free Traders, the Whigs, and the Irish Catholic and national members.

as Occurrences 2%

He was known to the corporations' lobby as a legislator who would sign a railroad's death-warrant with one hand and take favors from it with the other; and Kent laughed.

between Occurrences 2%

" They went out by the lobby between two ranks of soldiers.

for Occurrences 2%

Had the queer old man vanished, or was he lurking about the recesses of the lobby for some sinister purpose?

near Occurrences 1%

' She led the way along a passage corresponding with the one above, and unlocked a door opening into a lobby near the billiard-room.

on Occurrences 1%

She seemed to have hurt herself a little, and he almost carried her down the corridor in the direction of the carriage lobby on the Thirty-Eighth Street side.

past Occurrences 1%

He would slip out from under his steering-wheel, his linen duster flapping about his long legs, and he would stalk through the rocking, meditative observers on the piazza and through the lobby past Dickie's frozen stare, upstairs to the door of Miss Arundel's "suite."

during Occurrences 1%

In the lobby during the debate Lord Jersey told me he was afraid Lord Grey might have misunderstood the meaning of what I said about gratitude, and begged me to set him right immediately if it was so.

among Occurrences 1%

The Commons imputed its origin to the discourtesy of the Lords, who, when members of the Commons were ordered by their House to carry its bills up to the peers, sometimes kept them "waiting three hours in the lobby among their lordships' footmen before they admitted them."

Which preposition to use with  lobby