Sons of Freedom
Britishplural noun
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Most of the Dominion's 17,000 industrious, abstemious "Douks" have accepted pacifist alternatives to national service; only the obstreperous sect-within-a-sect called Sons of Freedom balked.
From Time Magazine Archive
The unrest at Nelson began when one Peter Wolosov, leader of an inner fanatical sect, "The Sons of Freedom," was imprisoned for burning schoolhouses.
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And the album's finale, the raving Sons of Freedom, is a discordant, fuzzed-out mess.
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The fanatical Sons of Freedom broke away in the early 1900s from Canada's Doukhobor colony, claiming that they alone were faithful to the old Doukhobor teachings.*
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He fared worst, save in the way of sociability, when following in the track of those gallant, thoughtless Sons of Freedom, the Garibaldians.
From George Alfred Henty The Story of an Active Life by Fenn, George Manville
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