It happened that, by some unlucky accident, the merchant suddenly lost all his fortune, and had nothing left but a small cottage in the country.

"Not me-I can sleep through anything-but the horse merchants in the next room might have lost some."

Also merchants selling their goods would lose their profit because of the taxes.

Each day the merchants of nicotine lose more than five thousand customers who either die or quit.

The merchant eventually lost all of his wealth in a tempest at sea.

A merchant with a young son and daughter lost everything except a field.

So the merchant will lose its market share to its competitors on lower prices.

But last year, they were picked in a public vote at a local restaurant, and the merchants lost.

Now that there was a new duke, the merchants and traders were losing no time.

Within about six weeks, that merchant gradually lost a significant proportion of his inventory.