This is very awkward for other people, manufacturers, for instance, who had sold goods to the bankrupts on credit; they do not receive the money they expected, and as they also perhaps have borrowed money while making the goods, they become bankrupt likewise.
"Political economy"
W. Stanley Jevons
The result is that a certain percentage of bankrupts do regularly set fire to their stores.
"The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society"
Upton Sinclair
Money-money-always struggling on for money in this life of beggarly gentility; while only on the next floor that old woman on the very brink of the grave had trinkets, any one of which- He made a hasty gesture, as if he were thrusting back some temptation, and took up a newspaper, but let it fall upon his knees as his eyes lit upon a list of bankrupts.
"The Master of the Ceremonies"
George Manville Fenn