"By", "with" or either?

[M56]

He washed it down __ a drink from a nearby fountain.

[Tdol]

With

[M56]

With

Even if it is a passive sentence?

[Tdol]

It was washed down...? I'd still use 'with'.

[M56]

It was washed down...? I'd still use 'with'.

I dug up these beauties:

In the course of his narrative he refreshes himself by a draught from the drinking-horn into which meanwhile Hagen has pressed the juice of an herb.

http://www.music-with-ease.com/gotterdammerung.html

or succeedeth in smuggling in a drink, or after much importuning,
the janitor is induced to cool the coppers by a draught from the spigot that sizzes and adds to the thirst that is not quenched;

http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb.../hamorwpen.txt


With these preliminary remarks, and after wetting his whistle by a draught from a small pocket flask, he made the echoes of Kenmuir ring with the following, which he sung to the old Gaelic air, "I am asleep, do not waken me:"-

http://forums.delphiforums.com/dicti...Reading+%3E%3E

** Interesting to note here that Conan Doyle was also Scottish born.**

I'm more and more convinced that "he washed it down by a draught from..." is a short-cut way of saying "he washed it down by taking a drink from" or "by means/way of". Maybe "Scottish ellipsis" is at hand.