Sons of Freedom
Britishplural noun
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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.*
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
And the album's finale, the raving Sons of Freedom, is a discordant, fuzzed-out mess.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Essex was promptly contributed by Salem, and the advertisement of the master builder is brave and resonant reading: To Sons of Freedom!
From The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812 The Chronicles of America Series, Volume 17 by Paine, Ralph Delahaye
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